| Department |
Archive |
| Collection |
Byzantine Research Fund |
| Reference No. |
BRF/2/1/14/9 |
| Level |
Item |
| Place |
Geraki
|
| Dates |
1904-1905? |
| Donor/Creator |
Wace, Mr Alan John Bayard
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| Scope and Content |
Detail of west door - The pointed arch.
Annotation in pencil on the back of the photo: H.S. 2889, Geraki, Zoodockos Pege.
H.S.= Hellenic Society negative number |
| Further information |
The church of Zoodochos Pege stands just below the Geraki castle wall on the west side of the hill. This single cell barrel-vaulted basilica is noteworthy for the carved Gothic doorway on the west side of the vaulted narthex: the moulding of bluish local marble is decorated with a rather rudely cut geometrical pattern, pieces of interlace carving in a peculiar kind of porous are walled in either side of the door. The above niche flanked by cat-heads must have contained an icon of some kind. The interior is decorated with good-quality wall-paintings. According to a lost now inscription these were painted in 1431. |
| Related records |
[BSA SPHS/1/1071.2889], Geraki: Ζωοδόχος Πηγή [Zoodochos Pigi] door, 1905
|
| Reference |
1905. BSA 11: 141, fig.2. Link to article
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