Church
Catacomb of Saint Solomoni
Nea Paphos · 1st millennium B.C.; Middle Byzantine Period
Catacomb of Saint Solomoni: a church in Nea Paphos.
Paphos District, about 34°43′ N, 32°34′ E
- Other recorded site
- Contours every 100 m
What was done when
2 records- Undated
Underground funerary catacomb complex at Kato Paphos; one chamber converted into a mesobyzantine chapel with 12th-century wall paintings; restored.
Repair and conservation
Pavlos Flourentzos, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2005», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 130 (2006), pp. 873-919 (trans. Sabine Fourrier), pp. 917-918
- Undated
Underground funerary complex; one of its chambers was converted in a later period (text continues on p. 918); paintings restored.
Repair and conservation
Pavlos Flourentzos, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2005», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 130 (2006), pp. 873-919 (trans. Sabine Fourrier), pp. 917-918
In the literature
1- 2012
Site where Miriam McConnon Papageorgiou's installation The Megalo Tama covered a tree with a giant handkerchief.
As printed
“an enormous handkerchief covered an entire tree at the site of Saint Solomoni in Kato Pafos.”
Anon., "inSITE Exhibition", Cyprus Today vol. 50, no. 4 (October–December 2012), pp. 31–33, p. 31.
Pictures
3Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation1 film1973
- Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (ΡΙΚ), film and video archive, Digital Herodotus item 6238: «ΠΑΦΟΣ - ΞΕΝΑΓΗΣΗ - 1973 ICE - TOUR - 1973», 1973, 00:30:40 Online
Department of Antiquities of Cyprus2 photographs
- Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, photographic archive, via HISTORICA (University of Bologna), fonds «OUC Department of Antiquities Republic of Cyprus» (BYZART, Open University of Cyprus), hdl 20.500.14008/28417: «Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, Nea Paphos, Catacomb of Saint Solomoni, atrium (2)» Online
- Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, photographic archive, via HISTORICA (University of Bologna), fonds «OUC Department of Antiquities Republic of Cyprus» (BYZART, Open University of Cyprus), hdl 20.500.14008/28422: «Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, Nea Paphos, Catacomb of Saint Solomoni, Interior, looking east: nave, bema: wall paintings» Online
Sources
- 1.Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, photographic archive, via HISTORICA (University of Bologna), fonds «OUC Department of Antiquities Republic of Cyprus» (BYZART, Open University of Cyprus), hdl 20.500.14008/28417: «Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, Nea Paphos, Catacomb of Saint Solomoni, atrium (2)» Online
- 2.Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, photographic archive, via HISTORICA (University of Bologna), fonds «OUC Department of Antiquities Republic of Cyprus» (BYZART, Open University of Cyprus), hdl 20.500.14008/28422: «Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, Nea Paphos, Catacomb of Saint Solomoni, Interior, looking east: nave, bema: wall paintings» Online
- 3.Pavlos Flourentzos, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2005», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 130 (2006), pp. 873-919 (trans. Sabine Fourrier), pp. 917-918
- 4.Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (ΡΙΚ), film and video archive, Digital Herodotus item 6238: «ΠΑΦΟΣ - ΞΕΝΑΓΗΣΗ - 1973 ICE - TOUR - 1973», 1973, 00:30:40 Online
- 5.Anon., "inSITE Exhibition", Cyprus Today vol. 50, no. 4 (October–December 2012), pp. 31–33, p. 31.
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