Whittemore, Thomas [Hrsg.]; Whittemore, Thomas [Mitarb.]; Byzantine Institute of America [Mitarb.]: The mosaics of St. Sophia at Istanbul: preliminary report (Band 2): The mosaics of the Southern vestibule: second preliminary report, work done in 1933 and 1934 (Oxford: printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press for the Byzantine Institute, 1936)

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Position.
Detail.
Particulars.
Imperial
Condition of
The twenty-nine letters of Justinian’s inscription are in the following
Inscriptions
Script (1934)
condition:
(1) I No repairs, one cube missing, several strengthened.
(2) O No repairs, cubes missing, cubes strengthened.
(3) Y One Fossati repair, one cube strengthened.
(4) C No repairs, cubes strengthened.
(5) T Several Fossati repairs, one cube missing, cubes strengthened.
(6) I No repairs, cubes strengthened.
(7) N Fossati repairs.
(8) I Fossati repairs, cubes strengthened.
(9) A Fossati repairs, cubes strengthened.
(10) N Fossati repairs, one cube missing, several strengthened.
(11) O Fossati repairs, many cubes strengthened.
(12) C Many Fossati repairs, several cubes replaced by the Fossati
with gold cubes.
(13) O Intact.
(14) A Fossati repairs, one cube missing, cubes strengthened.
(15) O Fossati repairs, several cubes replaced by the Fossati with
gold cubes, one cube missing, cubes strengthened.
(16) I Fossati repairs, cubes strengthened.
(17) A Fossati repairs, two cubes missing, several strengthened.
(18) I Cubes strengthened, no repairs.
(19) M Cubes strengthened, no repairs.
(20) O One cube missing, one cube strengthened, no repairs.
(21) C Fossati repairs, one cube missing.
(22) B Fossati repairs, cubes strengthened.
(23) A Fossati repairs, cubes replaced by the Fossati with gold cubes,
cubes strengthened.
(24) C Many Fossati repairs, one cube missing, cubes strengthened.
(25) I Fossati repairs, cubes strengthened.
(26) A Whole letter repaired, form unchanged, cubes strengthened.
(27) E Whole letter repaired, form unchanged, cubes strengthened.
(28) I Whole letter repaired, incorrectly, must have been Y.
(29) E Whole letter repaired incorrectly, must have been C.

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