FOURFOURAS - 2007
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Numéro de la notice
1835
Année de l'opération
2007
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Notices et opérations liées
2007
Description
Fourfouras. P. Varthalitou (28th EBA) reports on restoration from 2007 onwards at the Church of the Virgin (Figs 1-3) in a ruined monastic setting. This small church (Fig. 4) was shown to have two construction phases; architectural alterations in the early 18th century AD included the use of ‘accoustic’ pots (the vessels themselves being re-used from late in the previous century). The surviving frescoes in the east of the building date to the original construction in the last decades of the 14th century AD: one main hand and at least one assistant can be detected (Figs 5-8). A painted inscription of five lines (white on black) on the north wall records the name of Nicholas Arkoleo (Fig. 9), after whom the settlement was once named. At the west, a simple stone-built tomb yielded a bronze coin, probably a tornesello of Michael Steno (Doge 1400-1413) (Fig. 10).
Auteur de la notice
Don EVELY
Références bibliographiques
AEK 1 (2010), 556-67
Date de création
2011-02-15 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-12-11 09:05:25
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