Acheiropoitos
| Name of structure: | Acheiropoitos |
| Extended name of structure: | Mosque of Eski Djouma |
| Type of structure: | Church |
| Country or main area: | Greece |
| Region within country or main area: | Macedonia |
| City or area within region: | Thessaloniki |
| Date of structure: | 450-60 |
| Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 5 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Arches in colonnades and in south gallery and narthex vaults; tribelon and west wall window. |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Geometric patterns, flora, fauna, animals, inscription. |
| Date of mosaic: | after 450 |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 5 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | 5 AD |
| Silver tessera at site: | Unknown |
| Gold tessera at site: | Yes |
| Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | Unknown |
| Has analysis been done? | Unknown |
| Samples taken from where? | n/a |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | 1971-78, 2001 |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Korozi, M., Facorellis, Y. & Maniatis, Y., ‘Study and radiocarbon dating of mortars from mural mosaics’, in Archaeometry Issues in Greek Prehistory and Antiquity,ed by Y. Bassiakos, E. Aloupi & Y. Facorellis (Athens: Hellenic Society for Archaeometry and the Society of Messenean Archaeological Studies, 2001), 317-27. Kourkoutidou-Nikolaïdou, E., Acheiropoeitos: the Great Church of the Mother of God (Thessaloniki, 1989). Dalton, O. M., Byzantine Art and Archaeology (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1961, originally pub. by OUP in 1911), pp. 382-3 |
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