Museum
Byzantine Museum, Paphos
Paphos, Cyprus
Museum in Paphos.
History
- 24 November 1983Shown or named in the CyBC programme «ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ ΠΑΦΟΥ» (24 November 1983): The city of Paphos is acquiring a Byzantine museum. Among other things, the Byzantine museum displays Byzantine icons, crosses, vestments, relics and parchments with centuries of history. The pioneers of the establishment of the Byzantine Museum, the Mayor of Paphos Ioannis Agrotis and the Metropolitan of Paphos Chrysostomos, speak with the CyBC (RIK) journalist Pavlos Pavlou.
- 2024The museum held the icon of the Virgin and Child from the Saint George Koumanon monastery, Mesana, no. 61.
- UndatedNamed in Other Cultural Activities.
(1984). Other Cultural Activities. Cyprus Today 22, 38–40. Nicosia, Ministry of Education, p. 38
Objects
Composite icon of the Virgin and Child, second half of the sixteenth century, inscribed M(HTH)P @(EO)Y IANTANACCA, from Saint George Koumanon monastery near Mesana.
from Saint George Koumanon monastery near MesanaDorota Zaprzalska (2024). Composite Icons of Cyprus
Mentioned in
1 mentionDocuments · 1
Sources
- 1. (1988). Dr. Stavros Panteli, Cyprus in Pictures: History, Monuments, People, Places (1988), p. 62.
- 2.Dorota Zaprzalska (2024). Composite Icons of Cyprus.
- 3.Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (ΡΙΚ) (1983). “film and video archive (Digital Herodotus), item 5301: «ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ ΠΑΦΟΥ», 24 November 1983, 00:10:58”. film and video archive (Digital Herodotus). Digital Herodotus. Online
- 4. (1984). “Other Cultural Activities”. Cyprus Today 22, 38–40. Nicosia, Ministry of Education. Online
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