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Wharton 1988

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ID 133714
System Class Bibliography
Bibliography Book
Case Study The Process of Byzantinization in the Central Balkans (Late 10th – Mid-13th Century)

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Annabel Jane Wharton, Art of Empire. Painting and Architecture of the Byzantine Periphery. A Comparative Study of Four Provinces (University Park, PA, 1988)

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Inscription above the main entrance into the naos of the Church of St. Panteleimon at Nerezi Source Inscription has been preserved on the marble architrave above the main entrance into the naos of Nerezi. It reads: Ἐϰαλλιεϱγήθη ὁ ναὸς του ἁγίου ϰαὶ ἐνδόξου μεγαλομάϱτυϱος Παντελεήμονος ἐϰ συνδϱομῆς ϰυϱοῦ ’Αλεξίου τοῦ Κομνηνοῦ καὶ υἱοῦ τής πορφυρογεννήτης κυϱᾶς Θεοδώρας μηνί Σεπτεμβρίῳ ἰνδιϰτιῶνος ῖγ ἔτους ΣΧΟΓ ἡγουμενεύοντος Ἰωαννιϰίου μονάχοῦ. The church of the holy and renowned great-martyr Panteleimon was embellished with the contribution of Lord Alexios Komnenos, son of the purple-born Theodora, in the month of September; indiction 13, 1164, Ioannikios the monk being hegoumenos. The inscription informs us that the church was dedicated to St. Panteleimon and decorated at the expense of Alexios Angelos Komnenos, in September of the thirteenth indiction of the year 6673 (1164), when the hegoumenos was the monk Ioannnikios.