Comentarii in marmoreum Neapolitanum Calendarium
| Name of text: | Comentarii in marmoreum Neapolitanum Calendarium |
| Author of text: | Mazzocchi |
| Date of text: | 1755 |
| Date of person in text: | 18th century |
| Name of structure in text: | Basilica Suricorum/Santa Maria Maggiore |
| Type of structure in text: | Church |
| Date of structure in text | 5th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
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| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Campania |
| City in text: | Santa Maria in Capua Vetere |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Apse |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Mary with Jesus at her breast. Decoration and an inscription SANCTAE MARIAE SYMMACHVS EPISCOPVS |
| Mosaic date in text: | 5 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Mazzocchi, Comentarii in marmoreum Neapolitanum Calendarium (Naples: 1755), III, 705, quoted in James Snyder, ‘The Mosaic in Santa Maria Nova and the Original Apse Decoration of Santa Maria Maggiore, in eds R. Enggass and M. Stokstad, Hortus Imaginum (Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1974), 1-10 Müntz, E., ‘Notes sur les Mosaïques Chrétiennes de l'Italie’, Revue Archéologique, 17, Third Series (Jan-June 1891) 70-86, see pp. 79-81 |
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| Comments: | Original church founded c. 430 by Pope Symmachus. Mosaics destroyed 1754 during modernisation. |