De Ecclesius, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 60

Name of text: De Ecclesius, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 60
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: S. Vitale
Type of structure in text: church
Date of structure in text
Century of structure 1:
Century of structure 2:
Country in text: Italy
Region in text:
City in text: Ravenna
Specific place of mosaic in text: atrium at the front of the church (the narthex)
Description of mosaic in text: And in the atrium at the front of this hall [S. Vitale] he ordered metrical verses to be written with silver tesserae containing the following[…].
Mosaic date in text: 6 AD
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? Yes
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? No
Colour descriptions in text:
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. 176
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