Basilica
| Name of structure: | Basilica |
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| Type of structure: | church |
| Country or main area: | Turkey |
| Region within country or main area: | nr. Aglasun, Burdur Province |
| City or area within region: | Sagalassos |
| Date of structure: | Second half of fifth-early sixth century |
| Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Wall or vault |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Tesserae found on the site of the Sanctuary of Apollo Klarios, part of a wall or vault mosaic decoration of an early Byzantine church constructed second half of fifth, or early sixth century. This is in the Lower Agora. The temple was dismantled in the fifth century and rebuilt as a basilica with a narthex, three entrances on the west side and an apse on the east side. |
| Date of mosaic: | First half of sixth century? |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | |
| Silver tessera at site: | |
| Gold tessera at site: | |
| Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
| Has analysis been done? | |
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| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Schibille, Nadine, Patrick Degryse, Markku Corremans and Christian G. Specht, ‘Chemical characterisation of glass mosaic tesserae from sixth-century Sagalassos (south-west Turkey): chronology and production techniques’, Journal of Archaeological Science, 39 (2012), 1480-1492 |
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