Lower city church

Name of structure: Lower city church
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Turkey
Region within country or main area: Cilicia, Anatolia
City or area within region: Amorium
Date of structure: 5C, 9C
Century of structure 1: 5 AD
Century of structure 2: 9 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Scattered tesserae throughout building, some in chunks with plaster (glass mosaic omphalos in the center of the opus sectile floor).
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Reds, greens, blues, turquoise, purple, gold and silver foil.
Date of mosaic: Evidence of recycling of tesserae in 9C-10C, when the church was refurbished (Lightfoot, 2005).
Century of mosaic 1: 5 AD
Century of mosaic 2: 9 AD
Silver tessera at site: Yes
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?

No
Has analysis been done? Yes
Samples taken from where?

?
Excavation and restoration campaigns:

1987-: teams from several international institutions (see website below).
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Lightfoot, C. S., 'Glass finds at Amorium', DOP 59 (2005), 173-81. 


Wypyski, M. T., 'Technical analysis of glass mosaic tesserae from Amorium,', DOP 59 (2005), 183-92.


Lightfoot, C. S., Mergen, Y, Olcay, B. Y. & Witte-Orr, J. 'The Amorium Project: Research and Excavation in 2000', DOP 57 (2003), 280-92: http://www.doa ks.org/publications/doaks_online_publications/DOP5 7/DP57ch14.pdf


Gill, M.A.V. (with contributions by Lightfoot, C. S., Ivison, E. A., & Wypyski, M. T.), Amorium Reports, Finds I: The Glass (1987–1997) (BAR International Series 1070) (Oxford, 2002).

Witte-Orr, J., 'Fresco and mosaic fragments from the Lower City Church', in Amorium Reports II: Research Papers and Technical Reports, ed by C. S. Lightfoot (Oxford, 2003), 139–56.


Witte-Orr, J. 'Technical Study of Frescoes and Mosaics from the Lower City Church',  in Amorium Reports II: Research Papers and Technical Reports, ed by C. S. Lightfoot (Oxford, 2003), 146-7.


For more excavations reports see DOP note 1 or the URL below.
URLs:

http://www.amoriumexcavations.org/index.htm
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