ABSTRACT
In honoring Alexei Lidov, this chapter offers thoughts on the spaces of kinship carved out by toponyms on icons. This chapter endeavors to look hierotopically at the toponym's performance. Only the Agios Theodoros icon offers any intimation that it might have had a toponym at this point, but as a thermometer, the replicas register a fever pitch. A benign amnesia had settled over the image's past as it assumed its new life, a process that helps to explain why it has been so hard to trace favored image types back in time. The icon at Agios Theodoros is not unique in this kind of transformation. Something similar seems to have happened with the title icon of Makhairas Monastery, Cyprus’ second biggest monastery. The name can add value—indeed, even very high-intensity reflective glare, as in the Hodegetrias of Thessaloniki and Trebizond.
