Inscription on a wall
| Name of text: | Inscription on a wall |
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| Date of text: | 9th century |
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| Name of structure in text: | |
| Type of structure in text: | Public building? |
| Date of structure in text | 9th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 9 AD |
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| Country in text: | Turkey |
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| City in text: | Ankara |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | ? mosaic ? |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Emperor Michael raising the personification of Ankara who is kneeling at his feet |
| Mosaic date in text: | 9 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | |
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| Bibliography: | Foss, Clive, ‘Late Antique and Byzantine Ankara, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 31 (1977), 27-87, see p. 79 Poem in Greek and French in: Grégoire, H., ‘Inscriptions historiques byzantines: Ancyre et les Arabes sous Michel l’Ivrogne’, Byzantion 4 (1928-29), 437-68, see pp. 438-9 |
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| Comments: | Verses associated with a picture, possibly a mosaic. This entry is very speculative. |