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.
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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. |