Standing Church

Name of structure: Standing Church
Extended name of structure: Domed Ambulatory Church
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Turkey
Region within country or main area: Cilicia, Anatolia
City or area within region: Dag Pazari
Date of structure: 5C
Century of structure 1: 5 AD
Century of structure 2: 5 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Scattered tesserae on the ground in semi dome of apse.
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: Unknown
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:

end 19C: Headlam and Davis
1954: Forsyth
1958: team led by M. Gough


 

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).


Gough, M., 'The emperor Zeno and some Cilician churches', Journal of Anatolian Studies 22 (1972), 199-212.


Gough, M., 'Dag Pazari 1959', Turk Arkeoloji Dergisi 10/2 (1960), 23-4.


Gough, M., 'Report on work carried out during summer 1958', Journal of Anatolian Studies 9 (1959), 7-8.


 


 

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