Panagia tis Angeloktistis

[1] Other historians have noted that the churches were wooden structures and lit by oil lamps, “a bad fire risk at the best of times”.

[3] The apse and the famous mosaic of Panagia tis Angeloktisti survived the destruction and were incorporated into the church that was later built over the basilica’s foundations.

[1] There is dispute among historians whether the incorporation of the basilica remains were incorporated into the new structure because it allowed the new church to be built more quickly [4] or if the inclusion of the older structure would have been more difficult and labor intensive than building a new church, and only done because the older remains were important to the surrounding community.

[3] The incorporation of the basilica foundations meant the church had an elongated cross-in-square layout but with a centralized design.

The period of Justin II saw the expanded production of wall and floor mosaics, and Cyprus was no exception.

[3][6][7] Megaw notes that similar Fountain of Life imagery was also used in the ambo of Bishop Agnellus in Ravenna; other historians have drawn parallels to this Byzantine imagery in Salona, Zadar in Croatia, Stobi, Amphipolis in Macedonia, Greece (e.g. Basilica), and Edessa in Macedonia.