Citation
Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92694>
Description
Local Name: Geyre
Local Information: Field 2362, Southwest ** West: Recently harvested wheat ** East: Olive grove
Latitude: 37.42.20.266
Longitude: 28.43.07.777
Elevation: 514.512m
Axis: Line of Columns: NE 50
Dimensions: Standing Column: Diam: 0.54m; Exposed Height: 0.84m ** Column Fragment: Upper Diam: 0.44m; Exposed Height: 0.62m ** Column Fragment 2: Diam: approx 0.57m; Exposed Height: 0.40m
Description: Just outside the Southwest Gate are 3 column fragments, one (unfluted white marble) apparently in situ and standing upright, so perhaps the standing remains of a late church or other structure such as a portico. ** Column Fragment 2 (C056A), GIS N: 37.42.20.407/ E: 28.43.08.048/ Elev: 516.78m ** Column Fragment 3 (C056B), GIS N: 37.42.20.443/ E: 28.43.08.130/ Elev: 515.732 ** Distance between C056A and C056B: 2.30m ** Large marble slabs between C056 and C056A, might be paving stones or threshold blocks - slab 1: L: 0.94m, W: 1.45m; slab 2: L: 0.62m, W: 1.25m
Finds: In N field wall marble drapery fragment, no original surface remaining (L: 0.245m; W: 0.12m; D: 0.09m; GIS N: 37.42.20.857/ E: 28.43.07.681/ Elev: 516.308m) ** In the northernmost part of the field wall are fragments of dentil cornice and modillion cornice. A great deal of revetment fragments are visible in the surface of the field