Mount Athos

Mount Athos (Northern Greece) medium and in the preparation of the ... 

S. Daniilia, A. Tsakalof, K. Bairachtari, Y. Chryssoulakis, The Byzantine Wall Paintings from the Protaton Church on Mount Athos, Greece Tradition and Science, Journal of Archaeological Science, 34, 1971 1984 (2007). 

The GC-MS chromatogram, obtained after SPME of the traditional incense from a monastery of Mount Athos, is presented in Figure 10.7a. The occurrence of octanol (18), octyl acetate (40), incensole (127), incensole acetate (129), incensole oxide (130) and incensole oxide acetate (131), allowed the identification of a B. papyrifera olibanum (Figure 10.7b) in a mixture with other substances, most probably Damask rose and jasmine. 

Statheropoulos, M. Agapiou, A. Geoigiadou, A. Analysis of expired air of fasting male monks at Mount Athos, J. Chmmatogr. B Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences 2006, 832, 274—279. 

The monastery of Iveron on Mount Athos saved a similar tax record dated 1301 from six villages near Thessalonike. This survey listed 167... 

Although the legal handbooks clung tenaciously to the Roman principle of women s incapacity to adopt, Byzantine practice immediately recognized their power to become foster parents. A document of the Lavra monastery on Mount Athos, dated 952, recorded that a donor named David gave to this ascetic community property that he had received from his mother, property she in turn had taken as a dowry from the woman who had adopted her. Since this document was drawn up in 952, the adoption had taken place much earher, probably around 900, while Leo VI was still governing the empire. ... 

The southern Italian city of Amalfi had risen to prosperity by trading with Constantinople. Moreover, during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Amalfitans were the only Latin Christians to maintain a monastery on Mount Athos. Of even greater significance, the merchant Mauro, the chief supporter of the lay brothers whose community would eventually become the Knights of Saint John, had a perma-... 

Bikiahis et al (1999) Bikiaris, D. Daniilia, Sister Sotiropoulou, S. Katsimbiri, O. Pavlidou, E. Moutsatsou, A.P Chryssoulakis, Y. Ochre-differentiation through micro-Raman and micro-FTIR spectroscopies application on wall paintings at Meteora and Mount Athos, Greece SpectrochimicaActa. Part A 56 1 (1999) 3-18... 

Some outstanding examples of MHS strengthening with FRP mentioned in literature, such as the strengthening of the San Vitale Church in Parma, Italy, and the repair of the monastery of St Andreas, Mount Athos, 2011 (Figs. 6 and 7). 

Retrofitting and Strengthening Masonries of Heritage Structures Materiais Used, Fig. 6 The damages of the dome of the monastery at Andreas in Mount Athos before repair intervention (Photograph courtesy of G. Mitolidis)... 

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