KMF Basilica
| Name of structure: | KMF Basilica |
| Extended name of structure: | KMF=Knossos Medical Faculty |
| Type of structure: | Church |
| Country or main area: | Greece |
| Region within country or main area: | Crete |
| City or area within region: | Knossos |
| Date of structure: | c. 400 |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 5 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | Fragments found in the three apses, the nave, bema and eastern end of north aisle; some with plaster (now stored in the Strategraphic Museum, Knossos). |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Green, blue, red, pink, black, white, variegated. |
| Date of mosaic: | 5C |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 5 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | 5 AD |
| Silver tessera at site: | No |
| Gold tessera at site: | No |
| Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | No. |
| Has analysis been done? | No |
| Samples taken from where? | n/a |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | 1980s |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Sweetman, R., 'Late Antique Knossos. Understanding the city: evidence of mosaics and religious architecture', Annual of the British School in Athens 99 (2004), 315-54. Sweetman, R., 'The mosaics of Roman and Early Christian Knossos: interpretating the contexts and workshop production’, in Atti del convegno internazionale Iraklion, 23-30 settembre 2000): 'Creta romana e protobizantina' (Padua, 2004), 1173-85. Megaw, A. H. S., 'A cemetery church with trefoil sanctuary, Crete', Actes du Xe Congrès international d'archéologie chrétienne (Thessalonique 28 sept-4 oct 1980) (Thessaloniki, 1984), 321-29. |
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