House Door

Department Archive
Collection Byzantine Research Fund
Reference No. BRF/02/01/16/028
Level Item
Place Náxos
Naxos Island
Dates ca. 1913
Donor/Creator Wace, Mr Alan John Bayard
Scope and Content House door with coats of arms and sculture decoration. This is a Hellenic Society photograph (H.S. 2827). It is initialed (A.J.B.Wace) and annotated in pencil at the back.
Further information Naxos and Paros were the two central islands of the Duchy of the Archipelago (or of Naxos or of the Aegean) which was established by Italian city states, especially Genoa, Pisa and Venice, in the Aegean after the siege of Constantinople in 1204. Marco Sanudo, nephew of Enrico Dandolo, who had established himself as the Duke of Naxia or of the Archipelagos, conquered the island in 1210, divided it into provinces and rebuilt its fortifications.
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/1010.2827], Naxos (town): House door, 1907