Voyage à Constantinople fait à l’occasion de l’ambassade de M. le comte de Choiseul-Gouffier à la Porte ottomane
| Name of text: | Voyage à Constantinople fait à l’occasion de l’ambassade de M. le comte de Choiseul-Gouffier à la Porte ottomane |
| Author of text: | L’Abbé Guillaume Martin |
| Date of text: | 1821 |
| Date of person in text: | Nineteenth century |
| Name of structure in text: | Hagia Sophia |
| Type of structure in text: | Church |
| Date of structure in text | 6th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
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| Country in text: | Turkey |
| Region in text: | |
| City in text: | Constantinople |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Sale of loose tesserae |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Author says they were given pieces of mosaic which were taken from the walls; little pieces of glass of many colours encrusted in plaster or stucco. All the walls of HS were revetted with mosaics. |
| Mosaic date in text: | |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Martin, L’Abbé Guillaume, Voyage à Constantinople fait à l’occasion de l’ambassade de M. le comte de Choiseul-Gouffier à la Porte ottomane (Paris: 1821), pp. 111-13 |
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| Comments: | Choiseul-Gouffier was ambassador to Constantinople from 1784-91 |