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Puttee

Made of hand-spun and hand-woven raw linen. On the basis of many sources. Examples: mosaics from St. Michael’s Monastery in Kiev- 12th century, St. Theodore Tyron – icon from 1200 A.D. in the New Treasury of a Monastery of St. John the Evangelist on Patmos, the scene of the Birth of Jesus in the Monastery of St. Catherine on Sinai (12th century), miniatures in a Vatopedi Psalter (12th century). Due to thick arrangement of a textile around the calf, this element was also an additional protection. It could also appear as the only form of “footwear”.

 

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I. Western wall of the nave of the St. Panteleimon in Nerezi – 1164 A.D.
II. Icon with St.Theodore Tyron, Patmos, about 1200 A.D.
III. Saint Demetrius, steatite icon, Louvre Museum, 12th century.
IV. St. Theodore, steatite icon, Historical Museum in Moscow, 12th century.
V. Mosaic in the Cappella Palatina, Palermo, 1140-1170 A.D.

 

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