Theodore Metochites (1260/61-1332), was a distinguished scholar of the Late Byzantine period. Detail from the mosaic in the narthex of the Chora monastery in Constantinople, 1315-20.
Underwood, P.A., The Kariye Djami, Vols. I-IV, Bollingen Foundation, New York, N.Y., 1966, Vol. II: The Mosaics, p.26, pl.3
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