Hagioi Theodoroi

Name of structure: Hagioi Theodoroi
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Greece
Region within country or main area: Macedonia
City or area within region: Serres
Date of structure: 11C
Century of structure 1: 11 AD
Century of structure 2: 11 AD
Specific place of mosaic:

Panel of St Andrew now in the Archaeological Museum, Serres.
Apse has mosaic of the Divine Liturgy (now in the Ecclesiastical Museum?).


 

Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

See 'Specific place of mosaic'.

Date of mosaic: 11th C
Century of mosaic 1: 11 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: Unknown
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? No
Has analysis been done? No
Samples taken from where? n/a
Excavation and restoration campaigns:

Fire in 1849 (Demus, O. & Diez, O., Byzantine Mosaics in Greece: Daphni and Hosios Lucas (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard) (?) and/or 1913 (See Comments below?)

Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

PAE, 1952, p. 205 (incl. photo).


Diez, E. & Demus, O., Byzantine mosaics in Greece: Hosios Lucas and Daphni (Havard U.P., 1931).


Kondakov, N. P., Macedonia (Sanktpeterburg, 1909) (in Russian).


Chesnay, L. & Perdrizet, 'La Métropole de Serres', Monuments et Mémoirs de la Fondation Piot, (1902), 10 (1904), 16 (1909).


 

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Comments: Church destroyed by Bulgarians on 29 June 1913 - rebuilt 1935-48 using a lot of original materials.

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