Transept Church
Name of structure: | Transept Church |
Extended name of structure: | Church G |
Type of structure: | Church |
Country or main area: | Turkey |
Region within country or main area: | Cilicia, Anatolia |
City or area within region: | Corycus |
Date of structure: | Late 5C |
Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 5 AD |
Specific place of mosaic: | Scattered tesserae on ground porch leading into the north side-chamber. |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | n/a |
Date of mosaic: | 5C |
Century of mosaic 1: | 5 AD |
Century of mosaic 2: | 5 AD |
Silver tessera at site: | Unknown |
Gold tessera at site: | Unknown |
Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | Unknown |
Has analysis been done? | No |
Samples taken from where? | n/a |
Excavation and restoration campaigns: | before 1930: team led by Guyer and Herzfeld. |
Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Hill, S., The Early Byzantine Churches of Cilicia and Isauria (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs vol. 1) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1996). Herzfeld, E. & Guyer, S., Meriamlik und Korykos. Zwei christliche Ruinenstätten des Rauhen Kilikiens (Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua, 2) (Manchester, 1930), esp. 122. |
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