A bowl embedded in the Wall of the Chapel of the Hagioi Anargyroi in Vatopedi Monastery

Part of : Balkan studies : biannual publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies ; Vol.39, No.1, 1998, pages 5-14

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Jovan Ugljesa is the ktetor of the chapel of the Hagioi Anargyroi (1370) inVatopedi Monastery, Mount Athos. In the apse of this chapel a bowl of thePula-type is embedded. White glaze, blue and lustre decoration. The bowl isdated around the mid-fourteenth century. Pula-type ceramics originated in Valenciain the second or third quarter of the fourteenth century with a distributioncovering the whole of the Mediterranean. A fragment of a Pula-typebowl survives in the catholicon of Vlatadon Monastery, Thessaloniki. Thechapel of Hagioi Anargyroi and the catholicon of Vlatadon Monastery are theonly byzantine churches in Macedonia with embedded bowls. This customspread excessively in Mount Athos only after sixteenth century.
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Μονή Βατοπεδίου
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Ο συγγραφέας του άρθρου αναφέρει: "I should like to thank Mr Ioannis Tavlakis the director of the Tenth Ephorate ofByzantine Antiquities (Mount Athos) for giving me permission to publish the bowl.", Το άρθρο περιέχει εικόνες.