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A073: Yeniköy Chapel
dc.contributor.authorAphrodisias Regional Surveyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-24T19:02:50Z
dc.date.available2012-08-24T19:02:50Z
dc.date.issued2005-06-09en_US
dc.identifier.citationPage reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 237, 384, 385 - Book catalogue no.: Churches cat. 10. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93118>en_US
dc.identifier.otherA073en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93118
dc.descriptionLocal Name: Ağaçarası Tepesi or Alagüz Tepesi, Yeniköy areaen_US
dc.descriptionLatitude: 37.44.21.24en_US
dc.descriptionLongitude: 28.48.55.08en_US
dc.descriptionElevation: 1232men_US
dc.descriptionAxis: 145 degreesen_US
dc.descriptionDimensions: H. max: 1.80m ** L. north wall: approx. 8men_US
dc.descriptionDescription: Oriented roughly northeast–southwest, the chapel is asmall, single-nave structure with the apse toward the east and perhaps a narthex toward the west. The extant walls are buried under as much as 2.0 m of loose stone, brick, and rubble, perhaps from the collapsed vault or semidome of the building. Along the apse, the inner face of the wall is visible to a height 1.1m above the present ground surface, as is a single bench synthronon (H: 0.30 m), both exposed by illicit excavations. Numerous fragments of roof tiles and marble paving stones are mixed in with the debris. The side walls are built of unmortared schist with some brick inclusions. The rubble masonry of the apse and synthronon (W: 0.70 m), however, is heavily mortared, and the joints between the stones are scored (Fig. 21). The full 0.8 m thickness of the side walls can be measured only at what appears to be the dividing wall between the nave and the narthex; the maximum preserved height is 0.8 m, and the wall is exposed for 1.1 m. Robber's pits along the north wall have exposed some other construction details, including the inner wall of the apse and the foundations of the synthronon. From the southeast end of the apse, the outer wall runs to the southeast at a right angle to the apse wall for at least 1.4 m, probably connecting the naos to a side chamber. A platform about 8 m wide extends the length of the southern (downhill) side of the chapel and perhaps indicates the presence of an ancillary structure there. ** Fragments of the church's marble decoration that have survived in the area include a doorjamb found in front of an abandoned house not far from the church in 2005 but not seen again in subsequent visits. Nearby was a fragment of a marble screen panel showing the lower arm of a lobed cross together with an unidentified motif, perhaps a stylized cypress tree (A071) (H: 0.47 m; W: 0.30 m; D: 0.08 m). Both the doorjamb and the screen panel could be from this church. The decoration of the jamb block is typically Middle Byzantine; one side is profiled, and the front is carved with interlocked chains of guilloches and lozenges. This design is comparable to the decoration of architectural features that were part of the renovation of the Cathedral in Aphrodisias, dated to the tenth century.en_US
dc.relationA071en_US
dc.subjectSanctuaries and Churchesen_US
dc.subject6: Byzantineen_US
dc.titleA073: Yeniköy Chapelen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelArchaeologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
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