Whittemore, Thomas [Hrsg.]; Byzantine Institute of America [Mitarb.]: The mosaics of Haghia Sophia at Istanbul: preliminary report (3rd preliminary report): The imperial portraits of the south gallery: work done in 1935 and 1938 (Oxford: printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press for the Byzantine Institute, 1942)

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APPENDIX

Position
Detail
Particulars
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85
86
87
88
89
Mother
of God
Head
throat. Between the second and third row is a short line of rose tessellae.
On the right, below the meeting of the outline and the outer line of
the shadow of the chin is a high light of the lightest ivory, tapering
at each end, and curving down to the point of middle line of rose.
The second line of tessellae within the border at the lower corner of
the opening in the garment is a shorter, similar high light. Within the
outline, the shadow of the chin, and the penetrating lines of rose, the
remaining lines are all in deep ivory tessellae.
Hands
Left hand: length, 0-140 m. The hand is outlined in burnt-sealing-wax-
red glass except from the wrist along the lower side of the hand and
little finger. This outline, like the line separating the hand from the
sleeve, is made of blue-black glass. There are also two blue-black glass
tessellae at the base of the lines separating the fingers. The thumb is
made of stone tessellae showing a faint whitish high light at the upper
outside edge. The other tessellae are of brownish-white running into
shell-pink near the lower outline of the thumb. There are indications
of a thumb nail made by four shell-pink stones around a whitish stone.
The first, middle, and third fingers are two lines of stone—the upper
whitish, indicating a high light, and the under light brownish-white.
The little finger is of two lines of tessellae, the upper shell-pink stone
and the lower darker one being of a light greenish-brown glass. These
lines of the fingers are carried along the back of the hand and taper off
near the sleeve. The line separating the third and fourth fingers is
continued along the back of the hand in shell-pink stone. The other
two separating lines between the first and middle fingers and the
middle and the third fingers are continued in a light brownish-white
stone along the back of the hand. There is an ellipse-like line of shell-
pink stone along the edge of the first finger bone just above where it
joins the thumb. Below is a line of whitish stone indicating a high
light. Another high light in two rows forming an ellipse is shown
between this shell-pink line and the upper outline of the hand.
Right hand: length, 0-154 tn. It is represented with the same arrangement
of tessellae as the left, except the modelling between the first finger
and thumb. The tonality is much the same in both hands: the back
of the right hand near the sleeve is somewhat lighter. Between the
thumb and first finger there is a longer line of shell-pink stone indicating
the modelling with a more pronounced high light above rendered in
an ellipse of two rows of whitish stone. The thumb nail is shown by
two shell-pink stones around one whitish stone.
Handkerchief
The handkerchief is made of ivory stone tessellae outlined by a row of
light greyish-green glass. Rows of the same ivory stone hang from the
end of the handkerchief, indicating the fringe.
Nimbus
Diameter 0-49 m. The circle is made of one row of burnt-sealing-
wax-red glass tessellae.
Monograms
Average height of letters, 0-094 m.; breadth, 0-125 m. The letters, the
omission signs, and the accents are in large tessellae of blue-black glass
slightly raised from the surface of the gold background, the tessellae
of which outline them in one or sometimes in several rows.
Maphorion
This vestment is rendered in tones of blue glass ranging in value from a
deep blue almost black to a light greyish-blue. The darkest tessellae