Travels in Asia Minor, and Greece: or, an account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti
| Name of text: | Travels in Asia Minor, and Greece: or, an account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti |
| Author of text: | Richard Chandler |
| Date of text: | 1776 |
| Date of person in text: | 1738-1810 |
| Name of structure in text: | Parthenon church |
| Type of structure in text: | Church |
| Date of structure in text | converted to a church in the 6th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
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| Country in text: | Greece |
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| City in text: | Athens |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Ceiling of recess |
| Description of mosaic in text: | The picture of the Panagia or Virgin Mary, in mosaic, in the ceiling of the recess […] The recess erected by the Christians is demolished, and from the rubbish of the ceiling the Turkish boys collect bits of the mosaic, of different colours, which composed the picture. We were told, at Smyrna, that this substance had taken a polish, and been set in buckles. |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Chandler, Richard, Travels in Asia Minor, and Greece: or, an account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti, 3rd ed., vol 2: Greece (London: 1817), pp. 59-60 |
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