Book Description

Special Thematic Section in: Byzantina Symmeikta. Appendix 34 (2024)

As part of the research programme “Immmured vessels in Byzantine and Post- Byzantine churches in Greece: an electronic corpus”, alongside the information contained in the programme’s database (https://immuredvessels.gr) and in related publications on the subject presenting material from other areas, this volume includes four studies on monuments and immured vessels from the regions of Attica (City of Athens, West Attica, East Attica, Piraeus, the Argosaronic islands and Kythera), Achaea, Elis, and Messenia. The data is presented in a synthetic manner, with emphasis on both the presentation of monuments that feature the practice of embedding and on the commentary on the various glazed vessels. This approach results in combined observations on the specific practice (types of architectural monuments, chronological range of use, types of ceramics, arrangement of ceramics, etc.) for the period from the 11th to the 20th centuries. This thematic, particularly focusing on secular objects, reflects the shift in scientific interest towards investigating aspects of material culture, which has been observed in recent decades.