Kariye’deki Theodore Metokhites Mozaiği ve Gerçek Haç’ın Kalıntıları

Bu makale Khora Kilisesi’nin (Kariye Camii) batı portalının üzerinde tasvir edilen bani sahnesini analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Kompozisyon birçok araştırmacı tarafından tanımlanmasına rağmen, Büyük Hazinedar (Logothetes) Theodore Metokhites’in elindeki kilisenin temsili özel olarak incelenmemiştir. Kilise gerçeğe karşılık gelen mimari unsurların çoğu ile tasvir edilmesine rağmen, batı portalın yanlamasına tasvir edilen iki büyük haç motifini fark etmek ilginçtir. Bu haçlar batı cephesinin tuğla örgüsünün unsurlarına uymuyor. Ancak, naos ve narteks arasındaki mermer portalın dikkatli analizi oldukça özel bir detay içermektedir: portalın iki sövesine pektoral haçlar (encolpia) yerleştirilmiştir. Bu pektoral haçlar, ktetor’un Gerçek İnanç tarafından korunma ve kurtuluş umuduna tanıklık ederek Gerçek Haç rölik parçalarının kilisede saklandığını göstermektedir. Ayrıca, ktetor’un kurtuluş için umudu ve Gerçek İnanç tarafından korunan daireye kaydetmesini simgelemektedir.

Theodore Metochites Mosaic at Chora and the Relics of the True Cross

This article aims to analyze the ktetorial composition depicted above the west portal of the Chora Church (Kariye Camii). Although many researchers provided a description of this composition, the representation of the church in the hands of Logothetes tou Genikou, Theodore Metochites, has not been specifically examined. No matter that the church is depicted with the majority of the architectural elements which correspond to the reality, it is interesting to notice that two large crosses are depicted laterally of the west portal. These crosses do not correspond to the elements of the brickwork of the west facade. Nevertheless, careful analysis of the marble portal between naos and narthex area contains quite particular detail: in the lower third of two jambs of the portal were inserted pectoral crosses (encolpia) which testified to the keeping of small particles of the True Cross relic, hope for salvation and inscribing of the ktetor in the circle of the protected by True Faith.

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