ABSTRACT
The small, tile-covered, saddleback-roofed, single-cell church today dedicated to Sts Theodoroi (but as I hope to show, to St Kournatos in the Middle Ages) is situated in the Elos plain in Laconia, 2 km south of the modern village of Myrtia, on an elevation east of the route which connects the village with the Sparta-Monemvasia highway (Figure 16.1).1 The semi-circular apse of the bema has a grouped-type double-light window. Externally, the church is rather plain, with a zone of ceramoplastic decoration featuring at the midway point on all four sides. Today, the decoration is visible only on the north and west walls. In recent years, one window has been opened in the west wall and one in the south wall (Figures 16.2–16.3).Map of Lakoniahttps://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-u.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780429283468/0f844e2d-f109-461d-8add-daa5f8471312/content/fig16_1.tif"/>The church of St Kournatos (now Hagioi Theodoroi) in Myrtia photographed from the North-East (Photo courtesy of Ludovic Bender)https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-u.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780429283468/0f844e2d-f109-461d-8add-daa5f8471312/content/fig16_2.jpg"/>The church of St Kournatos (now Hagioi Theodoroi) in Myrtia photographed from the East (Photo courtesy of Ludovic Bender)https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-u.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780429283468/0f844e2d-f109-461d-8add-daa5f8471312/content/fig16_3.jpg"/>
