De Victor, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 66
| Name of text: | De Victor, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 66 |
| Author of text: | Agnellus of Ravenna |
| Date of text: | 831-846 |
| Date of person in text: | b. 794-804, d. 846 |
| Name of structure in text: | Bath next to Episcopal Palace complex |
| Type of structure in text: | Bathhouse |
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| Country in text: | Italy |
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| City in text: | Ravenna |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Side walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | And he restored the bath next to the ecclesiastical residence, clinging to the side walls of the epsicopal palace where he lived, which washes wonderfully up to today, and he attached most precious marbles to the side walls, and he composed various different figures in gold mosaics, and a tablet written with gold mosaic letters, on which we have laboriously taken care to read and thus find these hexametrical cataletical verses written on it: |
| Mosaic date in text: | 6 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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| 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. 182 |
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