Theotokos

Name of structure: Theotokos
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Greece
Region within country or main area: Stiris
City or area within region: Hosios Loukas
Date of structure: 1011 or 1022
Century of structure 1: 11 AD
Century of structure 2: 11 AD
Specific place of mosaic:

See 'Brief descriptive contents'.
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

Apse: Virgin and Christ child, saints.
Sanctuary dome and vault: Descent of the Holy Spirit, Glossai and Phylai, Michael, Gabriel, saints.
South apse: Daniel, 3 youths in the furnace, saints.
Nave dome: archangels, scenes of Christ life, saints.
Narthex: Crucifixion, Anastaseis, Christ, saints.
Vaults, arches, squinces, and upper walls throughout: saints.
Date of mosaic: 11C
Century of mosaic 1: 11 AD
Century of mosaic 2: 11 AD
Silver tessera at site:
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? unknown
Has analysis been done? Yes
Samples taken from where? n/a
Excavation and restoration campaigns:
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Fiori, C., Vandini, M. & Arletti, 'Smalti musivi dei monasteri greci di Dafni e Hosios Loukas', Ceramurgia + Ceramica Acta 37/2 (2007), 103-18.


Brill, R., Chemical analysis of early glasses, 2 vols (New York: Corning Museum of Glass, 1999), IX H, nos 2790-2796.


Freestone, I. C., Bimson, M., &  Buckton, D., 'Compositional categories of Byzantine glass tesserae', Annales du 11eCongres de l'Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre (AIHV) (Basel, 1988), 271-80.


Korozi, M., Facorellis, Y. & Maniatis, Y., ‘Study and radiocarbon dating of mortars from mural mosaics’, in Archaeometry issues in Greek Prehistory and Antiquity, ed by Y. Bassiakos, E. Aloupi & Y. Facorellis (Athens: Hellenic Society for Archaeometry and the Society of Messenean Archaeological Studies, 2001), 317-27.


 
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