Godlewski, Włodzimierz: Pachoras - the cathedrals of Aetios, Paulos and Petros: the architecture (Warsaw, 2006)

Pachoras: The Cathedrals of Aetios, Paulos and Petros

keeping with the then accepted interpretation of
the building history of the cathedral, which
assumed that it had fallen into ruin in the late
12th century. The two portraits of bishops on the
pilasters of the northeastern pillar (Michalowski
1974: 268; Godlewski 1995: 59; Martens-
Czarnecka 1992: 309, Fig. 2) can be assigned
most probably to the Late Cathedral, but since
they were painted on a structure that had already
existed before the reconstruction, there is no way
of telling whether a new coating of plaster had
been laid here as well. The evidence is not as clear
as in the southern part of the sanctuary. The
southern face of the pilaster had two plaster
coatings and on top, on the second coating,
a mural depicting a bishop. There is much reason
to believe that the second plaster was probably
contemporary with the rebuilding and creation
of the Late Cathedral. The dating to the late 12th
century does not appear to be justifiable (Jako-
bielski 2001: 76). The portraits of bishops were
painted in the interior right into the mid 14th
century (Godlewski 1995). A few cult images
have been preserved on the last plaster. On the
western face of the wall separating the southeast-
ern part of the naos, to the left of the entrance,
there was a representation of a saint preserved
only in the bottom part, interpreted by Jako-
bielslci (1982: 130, 141, Fig. 16) as a bishop.
On the wall separating the southern vestibule
from the rest of the structure, there was a cross
painted among Living Creatures and three (?)

Fig. 132. Late Cathedral. Northeastern vestibule of
north corridor, from the west

Fig. 130. Late Cathedral. North corridor, view from ivest

Fig. 131. Late Cathedral. Northeastern vestibule of
north corridor, from the south

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