PHILIPPIADA - 2008

Philippiada. P.L. Vocotopoulos reconstructs the founder’s wall-paintings in the peristyle of the Church of the Panayia Pantanassa on the basis of fragments recovered at the W end of the S portico, and G. Velenis presents the inscriptions on them. Two rulers are depicted (a man named Komnenos Doukas and his wife, Anna Komnenodoukene Palaiologina), being crowned by the Virgin holding Christ in her arms, along with two princes: these are likely Nikephoros I and his sons Thomas (proclaimed despot in spring 1294) and Thamar (who was married in summer 1294), thus providing a likely date for the painting.