Basilica
Name of structure: | Basilica |
Extended name of structure: | |
Type of structure: | Church |
Country or main area: | Greece |
Region within country or main area: | Pieria |
City or area within region: | Louloudies, nr. Pydna |
Date of structure: | 5th-6th century? |
Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 6 AD |
Specific place of mosaic: | Possibly on the walls |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Loose tesserae found on site. Green and clear glass, plus red stone tesserae. |
Date of mosaic: | 5th-6th century ? |
Century of mosaic 1: | 5 AD |
Century of mosaic 2: | 6 AD |
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? | |
Samples taken from where? | |
Excavation and restoration campaigns: | |
Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Poulter, A.G., M. Beckmann and P. Strange, ‘Field Survey at Louloudies: A New Late Roman Fortification in Pieria’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 93(1998), 463-511 |
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Comments: | This is extremely speculative. Archaeologists suggest that the occasional glass and ceramic tesserae probably came from the large basilica or mosaics in the megaron. |
Record Incomplete |