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Some further visuals for Antipas of Pergamum.
On Monday, April 11, 2011, at 6:06 am, Terri Morgan sent:
> Antipas of Pergamum (d. c90) is mentioned in Apocalypse 2:13. His
> undated legendary Passio (BHG 138; not necessarily the one known to
> Andrew of Caesarea in the seventh[?] century) makes him bishop of
> Pergamum and has him arrested in his old age and martyred, after
> undergoing interrogation and refusing to make the obligatory
> sacrifice, by being burned in a bronze bull in a temple of Artemis.
>
> Antipas as depicted in the frescoes (between c1312 and 1321/1322) in
> the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on
> one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and
> Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo: http://tinyurl.com/yed8xtm
>
Antipas as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (betw. ca. 1313 and ca. 1320) on an arch in the King's Church (dedicated to Sts. Joachim and Anne) in the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/34re8z6
> Antipas as depicted in the frescoes (1560; Cretan school) in the
> katholikon of the Roussano monastery in Meteora (Trikala prefecture)
> in central Greece: http://tinyurl.com/qqsrw5
Also perhaps just past our cutoff date of 1550 is the church of Agios Antipas in Pyroi in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the northern part of the Nicosia district of the Republic of Cyprus or the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (the town lies just within the Turkish zone):
http://tinyurl.com/43q343v [south side seen from the west]
http://tinyurl.com/3zglxnp [east side]
The church's description here
http://tinyurl.com/3crogxo
quotes George Jeffery, _A Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus_ (Nicosia, 1918), as saying, "The village church is perhaps older than the Turkish occupation [i.e. Ottoman, 1570] and one of the smallest in Cyprus. It is a sort of miniature or toy copy of a Byzantine medieval church, with nave and two side isles, and a tranceptal bay covered by a small dome. Although of such pretensions, its nave is barely six feet wide and the rest of its parts are in due proportion... This curious little church is dedicated to St. Stipas, an obscure dedication, possibly a local or corrupted form of Antipas, martyr of Pergamos."
Jeffery's conjecture about the name of this church's titular is paralleled by current practice. Both the church itself and its homonymous locality in Pyroi are now called Ayios/Agios Antipas. Though there is an attested ancient Greek Cypriot name _Styppax_, there's no known saint Stipas.
Best,
John Dillon
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