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-Map of Cyprus with the main roads and routes to and from Kykkos Monastery (A. Nikolaidou after Kykkou 1969).
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... on practical, economic, religious and seasonal factors. Nonetheless, considering that Kykkos monastery and the eventual journey to the Holy Land were common denominators in these travel routes, we can cautiously suggest the possible itineraries which eventually included the valley of Marathasa and the monastery of Saint John Lampadistis ( fig. 1). 12 The vast majority of travelers from Asia Minor arrived in the port of Kerynia, or any other secondary harbors in the northern coast of Cyprus. From there they followed a southwestern route that passed from Nicosia and key pilgrimage sites like Saint Panteleimonas in Myrtou and Saint Mamas in Morphou and the Kykkos metochion of ...
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... With their artistic and architectural importance acknowledged and appreciated, these sites retain their religious meaning and value. Relics of healing and miracle-making saints are still regularly worshipped, like in the case of Agios Ioannis Lambadistis at Kalopanayiotis village, while icons are celebrated daily for their miraculous powers, as is the case of the icons of the Virgin at the monasteries of Kykkos and Machairas (Carr 2006;Irakleous and Bakirtzis 2020). Local traditions and memory remain strong at the sites of village churches, and their icons, even in the cases of chapels that have long been abandoned (Given et al. 2013). ...
The rich architectural heritage of Cyprus from the period of Byzantine and Latin rule includes 10 churches inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list. Most of these monuments preserve wooden elements: whether structural, decorative or furnishings. Many preserve wall paintings that are considered among the best examples of Byzantine and Medieval art in the Eastern Mediterranean. The dating of these paintings as well as the church buildings themselves, has been based mainly on style, with occasional dedicatory inscriptions and related historical interpretation. We report early results from a project investigating the wooden cultural heritage of Cyprus and in particular the combined use of dendrochronology with radiocarbon via tree-ring sequenced ¹⁴ C wiggle-matching to help place initial tree-ring sequences. This includes a floating 264-year Pinus brutia chronology from several monuments, which, with a ca. 5-year gap, suggests prospects for >700-years of P. brutia chronology for Cyprus, and, with one gap of several decades to fill, ca. 1100 years of Pinus nigra chronology for Cyprus. Several currently floating elements from the multi-phase UNESCO-listed Timios Stravros church at Pelendri, including a terminus post quem for the celebrated liturgical wooden cross, are approximately dated across the 11th to 16th centuries AD.
... The plan of St. John Lampadistis complex (after[32],Figure 4) ...
The paper concerns the definition of a novel ontology for cultural heritage based on the concept of digital twin. The ontology, called Heritage Digital Twin ontology, is a compatible extension of the well-known CIDOC CRM ISO standard for cultural heritage documentation and incorporates all the different documentation systems presently in use for cultural heritage documentation. In the authors' view, it supports documentation interoperability at a higher level than the ones currently in use and enables effective cooperation among different users.
This article investigates the intriguing pilgrim cult of a Cypriot saint, John Lampadistes, during the Middle Ages. It considers first the development of the saint’s cult, and his shrine in the Marathasa Valley as a place of pilgrimage. The complex architectural space and the physical presence of the tomb, relics, and vita-icons of St John Lampadistes were the focal point of the pilgrims’ unique religious experiences. Subsequently, the article attempts to reconstruct the routes taken by pilgrims and to determine who might have promoted the pilgrimage to the saint’s shrine. Finally, the spread of the saint’s cult around the island of Cyprus is examined.
The paper concerns the definition of a novel ontology for cultural heritage based on the concept of digital twin. The ontology, called Heritage Digital Twin ontology, is a compatible extension of the well-known CIDOC CRM ISO standard for cultural heritage documentation and incorporates all the different documentation systems presently in use for cultural heritage documentation. In the authors’ view, it supports documentation interoperability at a higher level than the ones currently in use and enables effective cooperation among different users.
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However, the approach to historical graffiti has not been yet structured. Guidelines, specific analytical tools, and descriptors are still missing due to various reasons. First, graffiti are a multiform and multimodal graphic expression, so texts, signs, images must be considered together despite their different communicative nature. Secondly, due to their variety in forms and contents, graffiti have been studied from many perspectives – e.g., epigraphy, palaeography, history, art history, maritime studies- following the specific interests of each scholar. Consequently, the numerous and extensive contributions concerning graffiti highlight the lack of shared standards and approaches, hindering data analysis and interoperability. The panorama emerging is fragmentary and unstructured.
This paper, thus, aims to offer a first step towards the development of a specific methodology for the analysis and study of Medieval and Early Modern European graffiti. Precisely, a specific ontology adopting CIDOC CRM for Medieval and Early Modern graffiti will be presented, as developed in a preliminary form within the DIGIGRAF project with the support of the ARIADNEplus network.
