Great Palace Mosaic Museum
By: [main text, Erdem Yücel]
Publisher: Bilken Kültür Girişimi; BKG Yayinlari
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Istanbul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9786055495039
Subjects: Byzantine Mosaics; Mosaics; Conservation and restoration; Great Palace of the Emperors (Istanbul, Turkey)
Notes: Folded 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.).

The 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.
Table of contents: title: The conjectural layout of the Hippodrome, Hagia Sophia, Great Palace, Hagia Irene and their surrounding area during the Byzantine era and afterwards; title: Introduction; title: The eastern Roman Empire and Great Palace; title: The Great Palace mosaics; title: History of research on the Great Palace mosaics.