De Urso, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 23
| Name of text: | De Urso, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 23 |
| Author of text: | Agnellus of Ravenna |
| Date of text: | 831-846 |
| Date of person in text: | b. 794-804, d. after 846 |
| Name of structure in text: | Ursiana Church |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
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| Country in text: | Italy |
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| City in text: | Ravenna |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | walls on north and south side, vault |
| Description of mosaic in text: | He lined the walls with most precious stones; he arranged diverse figures in multicoloured mosaics over the vault of the whole temple. […] Eusarius and Paul decorated one wall surface, on the north side next to the altar of S. Anastasia, which Agatho made. That is the wall where columns are placed in a row up to the wall of the main door. Satius and Steven decorated the other wall on the south side up to the above mentioned door […]. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 5 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
| Colour descriptions in text: | variegated |
| Bibliography: | For translation see Agnellus of Ravenna, The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna, trans. by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004), p. 118 |
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