C043: Başbaş Chapel and Ruined Houses
Aphrodisias Regional Survey
2006-06-15
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Page reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 384, 385, 386, 387 - Book catalogue no.: Churches cat. 11. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92680>
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Sanctuaries and Churches 6: Byzantine
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Local Name: Sağırkaya, or Başbaş Local Informant: Orhan Akarca Local Information: Orhan was born and lived as a child in one of the ruined houses. He said there used to be a vaulted/ arched structure in area that is no longer visible. Latitude: 37.39.18.3 Longitude: 28.44.37.0 Elevation: 1182 Dimensions: Overall L: approx. 9.0m ** Nave W: 3.7 ** Apse Diam: 2.7m ** South wall W: 0.90m, pres. H: 1.2m Description: Situated approximately 7.0 km south of Aphrodisias, the ruins sit on a natural terrace on the side of a hill below a Late Classical or Hellenistic watchtower (A117). About 70 m west of the ruined chapel is a cluster of abandoned farmhouses that were occupied as recently as the 1960s. The chapel consists of a single nave with an apse at its east end. Built of rudimentarily coursed mortared rubble. A pair of pilasters (W: 0.85; D: 0.32 m) divides the body of the chapel into two bays; the smaller bay (L: 1.45 m) lies to the east, the larger one to the west. The pilasters may have supported an arch, which sprang across the naos. Numerous fragments of roof tiles and marble pavement slabs are scattered across the precinct. A number of marble architectural elements are also found in and around the abandoned modern settlement. Among these are five marble column fragments (Diam: 0.24 m to 0.27 m), two marble pedestals with dowel holes and pour channels (pres. H: 0.44 and 0.52 m; W: 0.48m), a large marble door lintel (H: 0.22 m; L at top: 1.21m; L at bottom: 1.00 m; D: 0.49 m), and three epistyle fragments, two carved with the same motif (L: 0.87 m and 0.60 m; Figs. 24–26). Found down slope from the settlement was a fragment of a large marble basin (H: 0.20; W: 0.32 m; D: 0.07 m). ** The two similar epistyle fragments are carved with a motif of three rows of tangent and intersecting circles that overlap forming four-petaled flowers. The third fragment is decorated with a row of palmettes inscribed within incomplete tangent circles. ** Also visited in 1993 Regional Survey.
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