The Hermitage of St. Neophytos, Cyprus
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D6HP4V | |
| Project Name | The Hermitage of St. Neophytos |
| Country | Cyprus |
| Status | Upcoming |
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| Spatial Data | Coming Soon |
| Data Bounds (approx.) |
Data Types |
| Data Type |
Size |
Device Name |
Device Type |
| Photogrammetry - Aerial | 10.8 GB | DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise | Drone |
| LiDAR - Terrestrial | 4.36 GB | Z+F 5016 | Phase Based Laser Scanner |
| LiDAR - Mobile | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Background |
| Site Description | The Hermitage (enkleistra) of Saint Neophytos is one of the most celebrated Byzantine twelfth-century monuments worldwide, given the high quality and the unique iconographic program of its frescoes, encountered nowhere else in the Byzantine world, as well as the fact that the whole complex was cut in rock.
The monument is connected with an important intangible heritage. The community that was built and organised around Neophytos has been the centre of intellectual production with strong connections to the Byzantine elites of the island and the capital of the Byzantine empire (Constantinople), during the tumultuous period spanning the last decades of the Byzantine era -which ended with the conquest of the island by Richard the Lionheart in 1191- through the first decades of the Frankish period of Cyprus.
The intellectual production at the Enkleistra is evidenced by the writings of Neophytos and the composition of the pictorial narratives of the frescoes. The latter has been studied extensively in the past, whereas the writings of Neophytos, as well as the artefacts produced by or connected to the members of the circle of Neophytos both monks and laymen, have made the object of far less study. |
| Project Description | The Hermitage of St. Neophytos is built into the cliffside of a seismically active zone, the the subject of a multi-year monitoring effort.
Multiple models have been created since 2020, in this last year multiple field deployments were performed enable a thorough analysis of the structures, and provide foundational references for future work.
-Georeferenced drone survey, using XXXX
-Contextual mobile LiDAR linking complex interior chambers to the facade
-High resolution Terrestrial LiDAR detailing the painted interior of the primary main cave chambers
-Photogrammetry capturing the paintings and their conservation state within this chamber
-Thermography, to map anomolies related to heat transfer within the main cave, and their impact on the paintings inside.
Field reports detailing these expeditions are available here |
| Additional Information | Learn more |
| Collection Date | 2025-05-11 to 2025-10-17 |
| Publication Date | 0001-01-01 |
| License Type | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Model Information |
| Reuse Score | A - High-Quality Model with Accurate Georeferencing |
| Curator Notes | The aerial survey incorporates ground control points captured using the XXX , made available in the CGRS93 projection |
| Citation |
| Mnemosyne Research Center, UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage, Cyprus University of Technology 0001: The Hermitage of St. Neophytos - Photogrammetry - Aerial, LiDAR - Terrestrial, LiDAR - Mobile. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6HP4V |
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