MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2012342732
003 DLC
005 20150129082037.0
008 140719s2012 tu a 000 0 eng c
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020 $a9786055495039
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050 00 $aNA3780$b.G74 2010
245 00 $aGreat Palace Mosaic Museum /$c[main text, Erdem Yücel].
260 $aIstanbul :$bBilken Kültür Girişimi,$c2010 [printing].
300 $a87 p. :$bcol. ill. ;$c26 cm.
500 $aFolded layout plan of the Great Palace of Istanbul (or Istanbul Mosaic Museum) floor mosaics following the palace's conservation, at end (folds out to 26 x 82 cm.).
500 $aThe museum houses mosaics from the Byzantine period, unearthed at the site of the Great Palace of Constantinople during extensive excavations behind the Sultanahmet Camii, Istanbul (or the Blue Mosque) in 1935-1938 and 1951-1954; the mosaics were later worked on from 1983-1997. The mosaic subjects, absent of religious motifs, depict primarily scenes of nature, animals, rural life, and mythology.
505 0 $aThe conjectural layout of the Hippodrome, Hagia Sophia, Great Palace, Hagia Irene and their surrounding area during the Byzantine era and afterwards -- Introduction -- The eastern Roman Empire and Great Palace -- The Great Palace mosaics -- History of research on the Great Palace mosaics.
610 20 $aGreat Palace of the Emperors (Istanbul, Turkey)
650 0 $aMosaics, Byzantine$zTurkey$zIstanbul.
650 0 $aMosaics$zTurkey$zIstanbul.
650 0 $aMosaics$xConservation and restoration$zTurkey$zIstanbul.
700 1 $aYücel, Erdem.