Inscriptions: Their Contribution to Byzantine and Post-Byzantine History and History of Art, University of Ioannina, June 26–27, 2015
Sessions:
Donors, Benefactors and Painters
Chair: Sophia Kalopissi-Verti / Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt
Epigraphic traditions in seventh-century byzantium
Ida Toth (oxford)
The profile of the donors in Epirus in byzantine and post-byzantine period
Christos Stavrakos (Ioannina)
Identity and patronage in byzantium: Dedicatory inscriptions and donor portraits of Naxos
Nektarios Zarras (Athens/Münster)
Painters’ cultural and professional status as revealed by the monumental inscriptions of Epirus (16th-17th c.)
Ioannis Chouliaras (Igoumenitsa) – Eugenia Drakopoulou (Athens)
Society and Economy
Chair: Claudia Ludwig / Andreas Gkoutzioukostas
Boundary signs and space organization in early byzantine epigraphy
Salvatore Cosentino (Bologna)
Some historical remarks on a mural painting in Arta (Greece), depicting a Khazar selling caviar
Stephanos Kordoses (Ioannina)
Inscriptions in Combination with Written and Other Sources
Chair: Salvatore Cosentino / Dimtrios Liakos
Epigraphia Carpathica
Angelliki Katsioti (Rhodes) – Georges Kiourtzian (Paris)
The use of the adjectives θεόσωστος and θεοφύλακτος in the byzantine epigraphic and sigillographic tradition
Christos Tsatsoulis (Ioannina)
Some remarks on the πάρτισις in donor inscriptions
Katerina Kontopanagou (Ioannina)
Epigraphy and Prosopography
Chair: Angelliki Katsioti / Maria Xenaki
Epirus in the middle Byzantine period: A prosopographical approach
Claudia Ludwig (Berlin)
L’épigraphie comme lieu privé d’identification personnelle. le cas des migrants balkaniques installés en Valachie et en Moldavie (XVIe – début du XVIIIe siècle)
Lidia Cotovanu (Paris)
Inscriptions on Monuments, Artifacts and Other Works of Art
Chair: Andreas Rhoby / Christos Stavrakos
Byzantine obituary inscriptions on the Hephaisteion (Church of St. George) in the Athenian Agora
Anne McCabe (Oxford)
Les inscriptions byzantines datées du Parthénon (VIIe – XIIe siècles)
Maria Xenaki (Athens)
Reconsidering a byzantine inscription from Aigina
Sophia Kalopissi-Verti (Athens)
Unpublished byzantine and post-byzantine inscriptions on Mt. Athos
Dimitrios Liakos (Thessalonica)
Ἰ]ουστινιανοῦ αὐτωκράτ[ορος, Θεοδ]ωσίου ἐπισκώπου…Contribution to the study of early Christian dedicatory inscriptions of Rhodes, Greece
Nikolaos Mastrochristos (Rhodes)
Inscriptions on Monuments, Artifacts and Other Works of Art
Chair: Ida Toth / Michael Grünbart
The overstruck seal with the metrical inscriptions of leon Sgouros and Ioannes Branas. The historical background
Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt (Vienna)
“Tower, stablished by God, God is protecting you”: Inscriptions on byzantine fortifications – Their function and their display
Andreas Rhoby (Vienna)
Puzzling inscriptions from the Basilica of Saint Demetrios in Thessalonica: New remarks and a reconsideration of recent interpretations
Andreas Gkoutzioukostas (Thessalonica)
The “speaking” decoration. Inscriptions on architectural sculptures of the middle Byzantine church
Georgios Pallis (Athens)
Inscriptions on Monuments, Artifacts and Other Works of Art
Chair: Anne McCabe / Ioannis Chouliaras
Multiplying inscriptions: The cultural context of Byzantine metal stamps
Michael Grünbart (Münster)
Réévaluation des inscriptions dédicatoires dans certaines églises du XVIIème siècle dans la région de Kalambaka
Fanie Lytari (Ioannina)
Presentation of the project: “The history supports the research and economic growth in under-developed regions: the donor and dedicatory inscriptions in the christian monuments of Epirus (4th–18th c.)” (Excellence II/AΡΙΣΤΕΙα ΙΙ)
Elias Pinakoulias (Ioannina)