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2006
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Robert Coates Stephens, « Byzantine Building Patronage in post-Reconquest Rome », Publications de l'École Française de Rome, ID : 10670/1.hjxlc1
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The paper discusses the role of the Byzantine government in the building programme at Rome after 550. Inscriptions and terse literary references attest to a number of interventions in the civil sphere, such as the maintenance of city walls, the aqueducts, the Roman Forum and the palace. We have little documentation for religious building by Byzantine patrons. Here, an argumentum ex silentio is constructed whereby those foundations ignored by the canonic Church text, the Liber Pontificalis, and dating to the period 550-700, are examined for possible connections with the Byzantine state. Dedications to the Theotokos as well as to oriental soldier saints are highlighted, and archaeological evidence is sought which might confirm an attribution of such buildings as S. Maria in Cosmedin, S. Maria In Domnica, S. Maria in Via Lata, S. Maria in Aquiro, S. Maria Antiqua, S. Teodoro and the various foundations of SS. Sergius and Bacchus to Byzantine patronage.