Monastery
Monastery of Panagia Apsinthiotissa
Sychari, Kyrenia District · Middle Byzantine Period · In the area occupied by Turkey since 1974
Monastery of Panagia Apsinthiotissa: a monastery in Sychari, Kyrenia District, in the area occupied by Turkey since 1974. 4 dated records of work on it, 1963 to 1964, with sources.
Kyrenia District, 35°17′01″ N, 33°24′00″ E
- Site with its own page
- Other recorded site
- Contours every 100 m
What was done when
4 records- 1963
A. Papageorghiou made some soundings to establish the limits of the monastery's refectory.
Excavation
As printed
“A cette occasion A. Papageorghiou a fait quelques sondages pour délimiter les limites du réfectoire du monastère”
Vassos Karageorghis, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1963», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 88 (1964), pp. 289-379, p. 376
- 1963
After a long period of neglect the Department of Antiquities began consolidating the church and the other ruined buildings.
Repair and conservation
As printed
“Après une longue période d'abandon le Service des Antiquités a entrepris des travaux de consolidation de l'église et des autres bâtiments ruinés.”
Vassos Karageorghis, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1963», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 88 (1964), pp. 289-379, p. 376
- 1963
The Department of Antiquities began cleaning the paintings.
Repair and conservation
As printed
“Le Service a commencé le nettoyage de ces peintures”
Vassos Karageorghis, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1963», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 88 (1964), pp. 289-379, p. 376
- 1964
The foundations of most of the cells in the west wing of the monastery were cleared.
Excavation
As printed
“Dans l'aile ouest du monastère ont été dégagées les fondations de la plupart des cellules”
Vassos Karageorghis, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1964», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 89 (1965), pp. 231-300, p. 298
In the literature
2- 1989
Apse Déisis destroyed and replaced from the 15th century by the usual Virgin among the Archangels.
Athanassios Papageorghiou, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1989», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 114 (1990), pp. 941-985, p. 985
- Undated
All early twelfth-century wall paintings removed from the church.
As printed
“all the wall paintings dating from the beginning of the twelfth century, have been removed from the church of Panayia Apsinthiotissa, near the village of Synchari.”
A. Papageorghiou, "The return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin", Cyprus Today vol. 28, no. 1 (January–March 1990), pp. 20–22, p. 21.
Pictures
1Department of Antiquities of Cyprus1 photograph1966
- Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, photographic archive, negative B20768, via HISTORICA (University of Bologna), fonds «OUC Department of Antiquities Republic of Cyprus» (BYZART, Open University of Cyprus), hdl 20.500.14008/27920: «Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, Sychari, Monastery of Panagia (Our Lady) Apsinthiotissa, north-east view of katholikon (B20768)», Photograph taken 1966 Online
Sources
- 1.Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, photographic archive, negative B20768, via HISTORICA (University of Bologna), fonds «OUC Department of Antiquities Republic of Cyprus» (BYZART, Open University of Cyprus), hdl 20.500.14008/27920: «Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, Sychari, Monastery of Panagia (Our Lady) Apsinthiotissa, north-east view of katholikon (B20768)», Photograph taken 1966 Online
- 2.Athanassios Papageorghiou, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1989», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 114 (1990), pp. 941-985, p. 985
- 3.Vassos Karageorghis, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1963», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 88 (1964), pp. 289-379, p. 376
- 4.Vassos Karageorghis, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1964», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 89 (1965), pp. 231-300, p. 298
- 5.A. Papageorghiou, "The return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin", Cyprus Today vol. 28, no. 1 (January–March 1990), pp. 20–22, p. 21.
Corrections and additions
Do you know this monument?
Help us keep this page right: repairs and restorations we have missed, the monument as it is now, and old photographs.
We would like to hear about
- Restorations, repairs or excavations, with the year
- A wrong name, place or date
- Access and the monument's state today
- Old photographs we may use
Tell us if you would like to be thanked by name on the page.