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
Irene
Loros
stone, and on the left in greyish-green and deep green glass. Still
lower and above the left hand are two triangles; the right is in greyish-
green and deep green glass and the left in burnt-sealing-wax-red glass
and shell-pink stone. The design on the loros visible below the hand
and above the belt is in dark blue glass only. The end part of the loros
over the left arm is bordered on the left in the same way as its upper
part; on the right are two dark olive-green glass rows merging below
into one. The undulating ornament on the middle section of the loros
is in dark blue and light greyish-blue glass. The alternating circular
and triangular motives attached to it are surrounded by whitish stone.
The volutes are centred with deep green and greyish-green glass—the
triangles with shell-pink stone and burnt-sealing-wax-red glass.
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Girdle
The girdle is made by three shades of green glass tessellae—deep green
outlining it and marking the shadows of the twists in the material,
greyish-green marks the lighted parts, and darker greyish-green the
half-lights. The oval jewel adorning the circular buckle is of shell-
pink stone set in a gold claw setting and surrounded by a single row of
burnt-sealing-wax-red glass. At the upper and lower edge of each side
of the girdle where it meets the buckle is a single large whitish stone
tessella. The lower left stone is missing.
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Thorakion
The ground of the thorakion is of gold tessellae. The outline against
the red of the right sleeve of the divitission is a row of dark olive-green
glass. The continuation of this row to the scroll marks the inner and
the outer outline of the protruding fold of the divitission above the
girdle. The ornamental design on the thorakion is drawn in a line of
dark blue and grey-blue glass tessellae in the same way as is the design
on the lower part of the loros over the arm. Within the blue lines of
this design are joined ovals and triangles, outlined in a whitish stone.
The joined ovals are centred with shell-pink stone and burnt-sealing-
wax-red glass tessellae, as is the middle triangle. The triangles below
the joined ovals are centred in greyish-green and deep green glass.
There is a fragment of a flower design in the lower right part of the
thorakion. It is edged with whitish stone; shell-pink stone and burnt-
sealing-wax-red glass are below this whitish edge. The lower left part
of the thorakion is missing.
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Scroll
Length, 0-419 m.; width 0-065 m- Tessellae are missing on the left half
of the scroll. It is outlined in greyish-blue glass tessellae. Following
this outline is a row of light bluish-grey stone. The rest of the scroll
is made of rows of ivory stone. The ribbon tying this scroll in the
centre is of rose stone tessellae and burnt-sealing-wax-red glass.. The
seal at the knot of this cord is made of small gold tessellae encircling
a larger round gold tessella.
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Alexios
COMNENOS
Dimensions
of Panel
Height of the mosaic on the north side of the pilaster from fillet above
the panel to the marble facing on the wall below, 2-46 m.; width from
return of wall to edge of mosaics on pilaster, o-6 m.
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Dimensions
of figure
Height from top of the cross on the crown to the lower edge of the
preserved part, 1-02 m.; width at shoulders, 0-44 m.
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Head
Height of head from top of the cross of the crown to the tip of the chin,
0-345 m.; width, 0-16 m.