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Protheses (Architecture)

LC control no.sh 99003733
Topical headingProtheses (Architecture)
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Variant(s)Prothesis chambers (Architecture)
See alsoChapels
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Found inDie Prothesis und ihre Bildausstattung in Byzanz unter besonderer Ber cksichtigung der Denkmõler Griechenlands, c1998: p. v (prothesis, both the liturgical rite and the chapel to the north of the central apse in which it became customary to perform it)
AAT (protheses; recesses, in effect chapels, used for preparation of the Eucharist by the clergy, and located on the north side of the bema in Greek churches)
Grove dict. of art (prothesis, Meaning ii; room, chapel or apse north of the sanctuary in a Byzantine or Greek Orthodox church, used for the storage and preparation of the Eucharist before Mass)
Ox. companion to Christian art and arch. (prothesis; in the E. Orthodox Church originally a table for the preparation of the bread and wine for the Eucharist by extension a niche or small chamber to the left of the sanctuary)
Ox. dict. of Byzantium: under pastophoria (the prothesis was the eucharistic bread, the table on which the offertory was performed, and the sacristy on the north side of the bema where the eucharistic elements were prepared; ref. from prothesis chamber)
Web. 3 (prothesis, plural protheses, Meaning 1a; the preparation of the bread and the wine in the liturgy of the Eastern Church. Meaning 1c; the northern part of the bema where this preparation occurs)