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Modern Description: Located underneath the modern Agios Loukas church in Patesia, by one of the main roads which led from Athens to the north. Pittakes, who excavated on this spot in 1860, reported “remains of a large church, the aisles of which are paved with mosaics, while the main aisle is paved with large slabs of Hymettian stone”. These belonged to the Early Byzantine basilica, which was succeeded by a smaller Byzantine basilica, the katholikon of a small monastery; the latter was already in a ruined condition by the time of excavation. Its dimensions were 7x11 m. The identification of this church with the monasterium sancti Lucae, catalogued in the letter of Pope Innocent III, has been supported by a few scholars. Drawings of wall-paintings of the Middle Byzantine church were executed by Karl Poppe in 1840: these depict a saint figure framed by a ciborium, as well as several bands with elaborate floral ornamental motives. (Tzavella 2012, p. 233)
Wikidata ID: Q14733098
Trismegistos Geo: 58713

Info: E. Tzavella 2012

Elissavet Tzavella, URBAN AND RURAL LANDSCAPE IN EARLY AND MIDDLE BYZANTINE ATTICA (4TH – 12TH C. AD), PhD dissertation, Univ. of Birmingham 2012, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/16292781.pdf

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