PYRGOS Monofatsiou - 2000
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
1799
Année de l'opération
2000
Chronologie
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Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Pirgos
Pirgos
Notices et opérations liées
2000
Description
Pyrgos. E. Theocharopoulou (13th EBA) reports on excavation, repair and landscaping at the church of Ag. Georgios and Konstantinos (Fig. 1) in 2000, which provides considerable additional detail of the building’s construction history and the execution of its wall-paintings. Different hands can be detected in the wall-painting. The artist of the Ag. Georgios cycle shows technical affinities with the painter of the scenes of the life of Ag. Konstantinos, with close reference to the styles of the late 13th century AD. Two contemporary signatures in the shrine of Ag. Konstantinos refer to the builder Georgios Pachnoutis: one on the eastern wall dates the paintings to AD 1314-1315. The paintings on the western wall are in the Palaeologan tradition, emphasizing the ties between Venetian-occupied Crete and the Imperial centre: they are by two hands. In the course of landscaping, a group of eight tombs was recovered outside and in contact with the southern end of the western wall (Fig. 2), of which four were child burials; one more was located south of the southeastern corner of the church. All are cist graves - slabs bonded with mud and covered by irregular slabs. The few finds associated are glazed-ware sherds, a brick stamped IC XC NI KA and a Venetian coin.
Auteur de la notice
Don EVELY
Références bibliographiques
ADelt 55 (2000), Chr, 1063-64
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Date de création
2011-02-08 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-06 10:57:42
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Pyrgos: Ag. Georgios and Konstantinos - after restoration.
Fig. 2/ Pyrgos: Ag. Georgios and Konstantinos - burials at the west wall.