Painted inscriptions from the peristyle of the church of the Pantanassa at Philippiada
Abstract
The article examines the inscriptions that accompany the donors' portraits of the Pantanassa church at Filippiada, Epiros. Several points of the inscriptions attract the interest: their spelling is mostly correct; they are written by one and the same hand; the technique used is that of secco. The first inscription on the left end of the scene identifies the male donor as the despot Nikephoros I, the second on the right end identifies the female as his wife, Anna Palaiologina, while the third inscription, a versed text of 20 iambic lines, refers to the depiction of the Virgin above and to all members of the ruling family of the despotate Nikephoros, Anna and their two children, Thamar and Thomas. The painting can be dated approximately in the summer of 1294.
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ΒΕΛΕΝΗΣ Γ. (2011). Painted inscriptions from the peristyle of the church of the Pantanassa at Philippiada. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 29, 81–86. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.609
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