Monumental Art in the Lordship of Athens and Thebes 387
at the foot of Mount Parnes.44 Two frescoed churches in the plain of Megara,
St Athanasius and St George at “Orkos”, are also connected with it. In fact, the
image of St Kyriake from the church of St Athanasius, nowadays exhibited in
the Christian and Byzantine Museum, shares the same linearity with the dome
frescoes of Spelia Pentelis.45 Certain ornamental patterns still preserved in the
church of St George at “Orkos” and the inscription ἡ φρόνησις (prudence), which
44 Mouzakis, Βυζαντινές–Μεταβυζαντινές Εκκλησίες Βόρειας Αττικής, pp. 127–32; Aikaterini
Pantelidou-Alexiadou, “Προτάσεις και μέτρα για τη διάσωση των βυζαντινών και
μεταβυζαντινών μνημείων της περιοχής δυτικής Αττικής μετά τους σεισμούς του 1999”
[“Proposals and Measures for the Preservation of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine
Monuments of Western Attica after the Earthquakes of 1999”], in Σεισμόπληκτες εκκλησίες
του Δήμου Αχαρνών [Churches of the Municipality of Acharnes Affected by the Earthquakes],
ed. Demetrios Yotas (Athens, 2004), p. 92.
45 Ioanna Stoufi-Poulimenou, Βυζαντινές εκκλησίες στον Κάμπο των Μεγάρων [Byzantine
Churches on the Plane of Megara] (Athens, 2007), pp. 66–69, fig. 16, pl. 2.
figure 11.7 Schematari, Boeotia, church of St John. Pantokrator in the dome. Now in the
Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens.
Photo: Ο κόσμος του Βυζαντινού Μουσείου, Athens, 2004, fig. 8 5, by
permission of the Byzantine and Christian Museum.