Vita of Niphon
| Name of text: | Vita of Niphon |
| Author of text: | Anonymous |
| Date of text: | 11C-12C, date of Niphon: 4C |
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| Name of structure in text: | |
| Type of structure in text: | house |
| Date of structure in text | unknown |
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| Country in text: | Turkey |
| Region in text: | Marmara |
| City in text: | Constantinople |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Over the gates of a large house in the Chalkourgeion underneath an icon of the Virgin and Christ child. |
| Description of mosaic in text: | 'the lord in perfect likeness' (kazhdan, 2006, p. 202). |
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| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
| Colour descriptions in text: | None |
| Bibliography: | Kazhdan, A., A History of Byzantine Literature (850-1000), ed by C. Angelidi (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute for Byzantine Research, Research Series 4, Athens, 2006). Ryden, L., 'The date of the Life of St Niphon, BHG 1371z', Greek and Latin Studies in Memory of C. Fabricius, ed by S.-T. Teodorsson (Gothenburg, 1990), 33-40. Rystenko, A. V., Materialy z istorïï vizantijs'ko-slov'jans'koï literatury ta movy (Odessa, 1928, repr. Leipzig 1982). Deissmann, A. & Maas, P., 'Ein literasrischer Papyrys des 11.-12. Jahrhundert n.Chr.', Aegyptus 13 (1933), 11-20. Weingart, M., review of Rystenko, Byzantinoslavica 2 (1990), 447. Mercati, S. G., 'Vita di S. Nifone riconosciuta nel papiro greco Fitz Roy Fenwick a Cheltenham, già Lambruschini a Firenze, Aegyptus 11 (1941), 55-90. Repr in Colllectanea byzantina 2 (Bari, 1970), 142-77. |
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