Native Name: Mozaik Muszesi
The Great Palace Mosaic Museum is located near Sultanahmet Square at Arasta Bazaar . The museum houses mosaics from the
Byzantine
period . In 1933 , excavators discovered a series of mosaics below what is now the Arasta Bazaar and after that , more mosaics were unearthed in the 1950s . This collection is identified as the floor of a peristyle courtyard of Constantine's Great Palace . The collection represents an earlier artistic era when religious motifs were absent and instead , hunting scenes and scenes from mythology were depicted .
The Great Palace of Constantinople was constructed during the reign of Justinian I (527-565) . The Great Palace mosaic was the largest and the most beautiful landscape in antiquity (6th century A . D) . The tessellated pavement in the building was really of a fascinating size and perfection , with no comparable in the world of late antiquity . Concerning the tessellated pavement , with its many colored lime , terracotta and glass cubes of 5 mm , one square metre of floor space consumed about 40 , 000 cubes , which makes for 80 , 000 , 000 tesserae for entire area .
