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This miniature opens the Gospel Lessons by depicting John the Evangelist on the island of Patmos writing his Gospel. This image, like others in the book of hours, helped a reader to navigate her way through the text. John begins the sequence, since…

This conical memorial, roughly 15 feet in height, surrounded by a circular paved area and risers forming a theatral area, is positioned at a hairpin turn in the road up to the Papingo villages. The stone-built truncated conical monument is topped…

This grave marker for Hediste is in the form of a naiskos. Under the geison is a painted scene, underneath which is a 6 line inscription in ancient Greek. The grave monument is restored from two pieces found separately but clearly joining. The…

At the top of the pass heading into the Pindus Mountains going north from Konitsa, an enclosure with a cenotaph of the men fallen in 1940 is marked by a toppled metal sign stating Heroon 1940. The cenotaph is approach through an arched gateway. There…

Media coverage surrounding the Hopkins case varied by publication. Articles, such as those that follow, took a seemingly objective position in the case by attempting to state the facts of the allegations. However, the quotes and photographs used in…

On a tall rectangular stone, the inscription is written from left to right in the top section of the boundary marker. Most of the letters are clear, except a few have worn away. This boundary stone marked the sanctuary of Apollo and Poseidon as a…

On a tall rectangular stone, the inscription is written from left to right in the top section of the boundary marker. It is unusual that both the omicrons and the thetas use the same character which is a circle with a dot in the middle. Most of the…

The Hours of the Cross, which typically followed the Hours of the Virgin, was a short Office intended to focus the reader’s devotions on the Passion of Christ, through hymns and responses that focused on his suffering on the Cross. A depiction of…

This two-sided monument stands in a triangular space on the streets of Ioaninna. Two benches flank the monument and are topped with slate. One side of the monument has an [aluminum] and brass relief sculpture in five panels. The third panel, in the…

Coverage from The New York Times and the Washington Post follows after a lower court ruling.

After her Supreme Court victory, Hopkins was awarded a partnership by a lower court. A variety of publications covered the news, some commenting on how challenging it would be to return to an organization that she took to court.

This bust statue stands in the side yard of the Kalpaki War Museum. The cast bronze bust of Colonel Fritzis stands atop a marble pillar inscribed with his name, the date of his death, and the donation of the statue by the War Museum.

The monument lines the road across from the Kalpaki war museum and is comprised of three marble pedestals topped with a marble pillar and bronze bust. The monument precinct is fenced off and two cannons on the right and the left are displayed. The…

Not far from the War Museum in Kalpaki is the location of the historic site, the Strategion, or Army Headquarters, of the 8th Division, which was inhabited during the Italian invasion in October 1940. The site is secured behind a fence and not…

Outside the city office building in Kephalovryso is a war monument that still receives active wreath commemoration at the time of the celebrations of ΟΧΙ day. The low pediment, faced with marble has inscriptions listing the names of local inhabitants…

This oblong clay tablet is between 0.1 and 0.15m (4-6 inches) long and has been inscribed with Linear B. This script is a syllabic representation of ancient Greek that was used before the Phonecian alphabet arrived. Many of the tablets that have…

At the top of the pass, a stone-built base faced with a marble dedicatory plaque is topped with a stone-carved relief depicting an andartes-style fighter. The monument is surrounded with a iron fence. The marble plaque lists four deceased ELAS…

An expansive plaza in the woods with a paved area and a stone built memorial with a cross acting as an altar for the fallen. The mausoleum commemorates both the ItaloElleniko War of 1940-41 and the Civil Wars in the region. The complex also contains…

A monument dedicated to the fallen heroes of Greece stands at the high point of the pass between Kalpaki and the Aoos River Valley. The monument is a pillar of triangular shape, i.e. with three sides, two of which bear a poetic inscription. The top…