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The church of the Dormition of the Virgin in the area of Palaia Episkopi in Tegea of Arcadia is dated to the second half of the 10th century. The central dome collapsed during the decade of 1850s resulting to its gradual damage. In 1884 the Tegean Association (Tegeatikos Syndesmos) undertook the restoration of the Byzantine church and invited Ziller to execute the designs of the reconstruction works. The project was completed in 1888 and the church officially opened in 1889. Between 1936 and 1939 the well-known artist Aginoras Asteriades completed the internal decoration of the church with a series of wall-paintings. The following years a numerous problems related to its construction put the building and its murals at risk.
The study “Restoration and Consolidation of the Byzantine Church of Palaia Episkopi in Tegea, Arcadia” was presented originally as a thesis at the MSc “Protection of Monuments”, Track A, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) with Supervisor Pr. Spyridon Raftopoulos. Then it was approved by Central Archaeological Committee (KAS) of Hellenic Ministry of Culture in 2006 and was implemented by the Directorate of Anastylosis of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Monuments (DAVMM) and the 26th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities during 2007–2009. It aimed to eliminate the causes of damage and tried to ensure the continuous protection of the building as well as the promotion of the historical, archaeological and aesthetic qualities of the monument.
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The theater is referred to be erected after the generous sponsorship of the Syrian-Greek ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes (146–330 AD), according to Tito Livio. The first who noticed the remains of it was L. Ross, (Reisen in Peloponnes , Berlin 1841). The French Archaeological School followed with René Vallois at 1912 (BCH 50, 1926).
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Nikolaos Papachatzis, Pausanias’ Peregrination of Greece - D - Details of Achaia & Arcadia - volume 4, Εkdotiki Athinon, Athens 1980.
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Le Synecdème Du Hieroclès - E. Honigmann (Corpus bruxellense historiae byzantinae Forma Imperii Romani I), Bruxelles 1939 pp. 1–48. - look A. Bon, Le Pèloponnèse bysantin, Paris 1951, p. 23.
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Lyrics 1715, 1752, 2027, 3332, 4878, 5147, 6711 etc. edited by Peter P. Kalonaros.
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Α. Orlandos, - Bulletin of Byzantine and Christian Monuments of Greece Volume ΙΒ 1973, pp. 141–162.
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Look “Chronicle of Morea”.
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Ν. Veis, Byzantis Α’, 1909, p. 68, 112.
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State Archives of Venice, Grimani Archive, folder 54, subfolder 157, information provided from the Historian Vasilis Siakotos for the needs of this research.
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Veltiosis no. 297, 12-9-1857. The information is provided from the Historian Vasilis Siakotos for the needs of this research.
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Ν. Alexopoulos, History of the medieval cities of Peloponnese, 1951, p. 89.
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The feast was called the day of “Kallos”, because during the dance the future brides were selected.
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R.A. McNeal, (ed.), Biddle in Greece: The journals and letters of 1806, Pennsylvania State University Press 1993, p. 177 [17/06/1806].
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Edgar Quinet, Greece in 1830 and its relations to antiquity, Translation by Lila Ginaka, Tolidi Pulications, Athens 1988, p. 132.
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Expéndition Scieintifique de Μorée II, Paris 1833, p. 84.
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Archaiological Newspaper, issue b, November 1837.
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Veltiosis no. 297, 12-9-1857. The information is provided from the Historian Vasilis Siakotos for the needs of this research.
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J.Α. Βuchon, La Grèce continentale et la Morée, Paris 1843, p. 420.
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Artist Unanimous, Ν.Moraitis, History of Tegea, 1932.
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Proceedings of the Administration. Council of Tegean Association 7-5-1889.
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ziller_(architecte) (retrieval 30-09-2018).
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Archive of Directorate of Anastylosis of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments.
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Ν. Moraitis, History of Tegea, 1932, p. 240.
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Ν. Moraitis, History of Tegea, 1932, p. 720.
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Ν. Moraitis, History of Tegea, 1932, p. 732.
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René Vallois (BCH 50, 1926).
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Siountri, K. (2019). Restoration and Consolidation of the Byzantine Church of Palaia Episkopi in Tegea, Arcadia. In: Moropoulou, A., Korres, M., Georgopoulos, A., Spyrakos, C., Mouzakis, C. (eds) Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modeling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. TMM_CH 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 962. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12960-6_5
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