Panagia Angeloktistos

Name of structure: Panagia Angeloktistos
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Cyprus
Region within country or main area:
City or area within region: Kiti
Date of structure: 5C, 1000, 12C, 13C.
Century of structure 1: 5 AD
Century of structure 2: 13 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Apse.
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Virgin and Christ child, archangels, inscription.
Date of mosaic: 6C-7C
Century of mosaic 1: 6 AD
Century of mosaic 2: 7 AD
Silver tessera at site: Yes
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? Unknown.
Has analysis been done? No
Samples taken from where? n/a
Excavation and restoration campaigns:

1970s: team from Department of Antiquities and with the support of Dumbarton Oaks led by E. J. W. Hawkins.


 
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Michaelides, D., 'A catalogue of Hellenistic, Roman and early Christian Mosaics of Cyprus with representations of human figures', Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, 1987, 239-52.


Megaw, A. H. S., 'Mosaici parietali Paleobizantini di Cipro', in XXXIII Corso di Cultural sull'arte Ravennate e Bizantina: Cipro e il Mediterraneo Orientali Ravenna, 23-30 Marzo 1985) (Ravenna: Edizioni del Girasoli, 1985), 173-98.


Megaw, A. H. S., 'Early Byzantine monuments in Cyprus in the light of recent discoveries’, Akten des XI Internationalen Byzantinistenkongresses (Munich 1958) (1960), 345–51.
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