Whittemore, Thomas [Editor]; Byzantine Institute of America [Contr.]: 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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Position
Detail
Particulars
Mother of
God
Maphorion
are translucent and the lighter are opaque. The outline of the mapho-
rion over the head and body, round the face and neck, and the folds
of the vestment are made by lines of deep blue glass. The edges of this
garment and the fringe ending in small crosses are represented in gold
glass. The three segmenta are formed by large gold pear-shaped
tessellae surrounding a round central one.
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Stola
The stola is represented in the same glass tessellae as the maphorion with
one more tone—a light blue-grey shown below and at the right of the
handkerchief and in the folds below the feet of the Child. The tonality
of the stola below the Child is lighter than that of the maphorion.
The edge of the stola along the gold edge of the maphorion is given
in deepest-blue glass.
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Cap
The same light blue-grey glass tessellae are used in the cap as in the
stola. The stripes of the stuff at either side of the face and forehead are
rendered in blue-black glass tessellae, similar to those which outline
the face and the maphorion.
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Child
Dimensions
Height from top of head to right toe, 0-675 m.; width at shoulders,
0-194 m.
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Head
Height of head from top to tip of chin, 0-148 m.; width of head above
eyes, 0-125 m-
Tessellae are missing on the head and neck in the following places:
middle of forehead, left part of right eye, right part of left eye, lower
left side of nose, mouth, lower part of left cheek near mouth, upper
part of right ear, small section at left of middle of neck.
Colours of face: the brownish-white, the whitish, and the two tones of
rose of the face are stone tessellae, as are the reddish-brown, the golden-
brown, and the brownish-mauve of the hair. The two tones of light
greenish-brown used in the face are almost opaque glass tessellae. The
dark reddish-brown glass tessellae of the eyebrows, the burnt-sealing-
wax-red glass in the face, and the blue-black glass tessellae that form
the inner outline of the hair are translucent.
Hair: the hair is outlined against the nimbus, on the left side, by a line
of deep reddish semi-opaque glass tessellae, which changes into a line
of dark olive-green for the right side. An undulating blue-black row
runs from the right temple to the left separating the hair from the
forehead. 1 Below the beginning of this blue-black outline on the right
side are two glass tessellae of deep reddish-brown. The wavy lines of
tessellae on the right side of the head are of reddish-brown stone, with
a few high lights in golden-brown stone set between them. The first
lock at the right is a light greenish-brown stone line, the next, a darker
greenish-brown stone, the third a dark brownish-red glass, and the
fourth a line of two tessellae of violet-black glass. A continuation of
the second lock runs up into the hair as a high light and is golden-
brown stone. On the left side of the head the hair is rendered by the
same wavy lines of stone tessellae. Here they are of brownish-mauve,
darker in tonality than those on the right lighted side of the head.
High lights of golden-brown stone are shown next to all the five curves
of the dark outline of the hair against the left of the forehead and in
shorter strokes between the rows of brownish-mauve stone. Curls are
visible below each ear. Their outline against the nimbus is of deep
reddish-brown glass tessellae; a line of violet-black glass tessellae starting

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