Pachoras. The Cathedrals of Aetios, Paulos and Petros. The Architecture ISBN: 83-235-0167-X Description: hardback, 175 pages (30,5x21cm); 167 figures Condition: very good Weight: 820g. Price: $65.10 This item is in stock Quantity:

   Wlodzimierz Godlewski, Pachoras. The Cathedrals of Aetios, Paulos and Petros. The Architecture, Warsaw University Press, Warsaw 2006



Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

References

List of bishops of Pachoras

1. Introduction

2. The oldest structures on the site

3. The Cathedral of Aetios

4. The Cathedral of Paulos

5. Development of architecture in the cathedral area

6. Changes in the Cathedral of Paulos and around the building

7. The Cathedral of Petros

8. The Late Cathedral

9. Tombs of the bishops

10. Analysis

List of architectural elements List of figures

Index

 

 

 

"The book is of fundamental value: Systematic and comprehensive, it sets a consistently high professional standard of research that is hardly supported by the circumstances - undertaking to reconstruct a building excavated in Faras forty years earlier, in a dig carried out at breakneck pace, constrained by the builders of Nasser Dam - considering that the cathedral now lies at the bottom of the lake and the researcher is left to work with whatever archaeological documentation is available, such as old field notes, drawings, plans, photographs made during the work.

The author is particularly qualified to present his conclusions concerning the architectural complex in Faras. He is an active field archaeologist with wide experience in investigating vestiges of ancient archi?tecture. Years of digging on many different sites have honed his skills of interpreting the archaeological record, and a vested interest in the subject has endowed him with intuition. This "feeling" for architecture, Nubian archi?tecture in particular, is deeply grounded in a develop?ing understanding of the workings of the ancient builders' mind, and the circumstances and technologies which would have determined many building decisions.

The Cathedral at Faras is known far and wide for the magnificent wall paintings. Now it is time for the no less impressive architecture, which Godlewski's excellent overview will undoubtedly restore to a rightful place in textbook studies of Byzantine art."
 
The first comprehensive discussion of the architecture of the cathedral complex from Faras in Sudan, the Nubian Pachoras, encompassing successive stages of the superposed, enlarged and rehabilitated building (dating to the period from the seventh to the fourteenth century), called after the names of the bishops who undertook the development: first Aetios, and then Paulos and Petros.

A penetrating analysis of archaeological and architectural field docu?mentation, supported by hitherto unpublished photographs and plans (more than 160 black 6t white illustrations), has led Wtodzimierz Godlewski to present in new light the building sequence of the Cathedral in Faras, the ruins of which were explored in the years 1960 - 1964 by a Polish archaeological mission directed by Professor Kazimierz Michalowski...

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