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Title En Sofia mathitefsantes : essays in Byzantine material culture and society in honour of Sophia Kalopissi-verti / edited by Charikleia Diamanti and Anastasia Vassiliou ; in collaboration with Smaragdi Arvaniti
Published Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., 2019

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Description 1 online resource (454 pages) : illustrations (colour)
Series Archaeopress archaeology
Archaeopress archaeology.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Sophia Kalopissi-Verti and her Contribution to the Study of Byzantine Art and Archaeology / Vicky Foskolou -- Publications of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti -- Urbanism and Architecture -- Reconstruction of Byzantine Lived Spaces: A Challenge for Survey Archaeology / Myrto Veikou -- Kyphes of Chalke: A Primitive Type of Medieval Housing in a Small Island of the Dodecanese / Maria Z. Sigala -- Bent Entrances in Fortifications of the Middle and Late Byzantine Period / Stavros I. Arvanitopoulos -- ̀Fino al tempo delli Re di Cipro': Retro-Gothic and Nostalgic Identities in Venetian Cyprus / Michalis Olympios -- Reassessment of the Contribution of Albert Gabriel to the Study of Urban Architecture in Hospitaller Rhodes / Anna-Maria Kasdagli -- Painting and Iconography -- Entre Constantinople et peripheric: Saint Leon, Eveque de Catane, particulierement venere en Laconie, Peloponnese / Anna Takoumi et Kyriaki Tassoyannopoulou -- ̀Rose of the Winds' Illustration in the Exultet I Bari Roll (c. 1025-1034) and its probable Neoplatonic Implications / Sophia Germanidou -- Wall Paintings of the Church of St George Tropaiophoros at Loukisia in Boeotia, Greece (second quarter of the 13th century) / Giannis Vaxevanis -- Iconographic Cycle of the Revelation of John at Petra Monastery (1789) near the Village of Katafygio in the Region of Karditsa, Greece / Georgios Tsimpoukis -- Stone Carving and Sculpture -- Early Byzantine Marble Vases from Kos Island, Dodecanese, Greece / Eirene Poupaki -- Observations on Published and Unpublished Byzantine Sculpted Architectural Members from Corinth / Eleni G. Manolessou -- Synthesis of the Facades of the Church of St John at Keria in Mesa (Inner) Mani: The Role of the Marble Spolia built into the Walls / Angeliki Mexia -- Ceramics -- Quaestura exercitus, the Eparch of the islands and the Late Roman/Early Byzantine Stamped Amphoras / Charikleia Diamanti -- 6th-7th century AD Greek Lamps Phenomenon: An Indication of Regional Identity or a Large-Scale Imitation? / Platon Petridis -- Aspects of Medieval Secular Imagery: Representations of Warriors in Byzantine Glazed Pottery from Argos and Nauplio (12th-13th centuries) / Anastasia Vassiliou -- Bone, Metal and Textiles -- Dice and Pawns from the Early Byzantine Episcopal Complex at Louloudies of Kitros in Pieria / Evangelia Angelkou -- Casket's Bone Lid from the Early Byzantine Episcopal Complex at Louloudies of Kitros in Pieria / Maria Cheimonopoulou -- Early Byzantine Metal Workshops in a Settlement near St Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai, Egypt): Archaeological Evidence and First Results of Laboratory Examinations / Anno Hein -- Weaponry from the Principality of Achaia (1205-1428) / Eleni Barmparitsa -- Le vestiaire byzantin comme temoin de l'identite culturelle des Byzantins ainsi que de la realite politique de l'Empire / Pari Kalamara -- Coinage and Sigillography -- Mint of Byzantine Antioch (c. 516-610): Some Remarks on Trends in Provincial Coinage / Pavla Gkantzios Drapelova -- Some Unpublished Byzantine Lead Seals from the Private Collection of Zafeiris Syrras (London) / Zafeiris Syrras -- Daniel in the Lions' Den: An Unknown Palaiologan Numismatic Representation / Pagona Papadopoulou -- Inscriptions, Portraits and Patronage -- Kos in the Early and Middle Byzantine Times: The Evidence of Epigraphy / Evangelia Militsi-Kechagia -- Verbal Funerary Portraits: Inscriptions and Epigrams as Tomb Decoration in Monuments of the Byzantine Periphery / Konstantina Tsiorou -- Remarks on Two Middle Byzantine Templon Inscriptions with Curses from Mani / Georgios Pallis -- What are the Byzantine Emperor and the Patriarch of Constantinople doing in Aegina? A Historical Interpretation of the Donor Inscription in the Omorphe Ekklesia (1289) / Vicky Foskolou -- Nikolaos Kourouniotes remembered: A Funerary Portrait from Medieval Leros, Dodecanese / Konstantia Kefala -- Church of the Saviour at Mesaria, Telos (Dodecanese) and its Votive Inscription (1423/4) / Nikolaos Mastrochristos -- Patronage in Constantinople after 1453 / Nicholas Melvani
Summary The 30 studies presented here are dedicated to Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Emerita of Byzantine Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. They cover a large variety of topics presenting unpublished archaeological material, suggesting new approaches to various aspects of Byzantine archaeology, material culture and art history
Notes Title in Greek script
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Text primarily in English, but some papers in French
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 6, 2020)
Subject Material culture.
Byzantine antiquities.
material culture (discipline)
Byzantine antiquities
Material culture
Form Electronic book
Author Diamanti, Charikleia, editor
Vassiliou, Anastasia, editor
Arvanitē, Smaragdē I., editor
Kalopissi-Verti, Sophia, honouree
ISBN 1789692636
9781789692631