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Late Antique Knossos. Understanding the city: evidence of mosaics and religious architecture
The Annual of the British School at Athens, 2004Interpretation of the historical and epigraphical data can only provide a bare outline of the political and social environment of Knossos between the 5th and 7th centuries AD. Consequently, our understanding of late Antique Knossos comes primarily from the excavated remains of two of the Christian basilicas in the Valley; the Sanatorium Basilica and ...
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The “School of Kos” and architectural koine in the southeastern Aegean during Late Antiquity
2021The building boom of ecclesiastical monumental structures acknowledged on the Dodekanese island of Kos during the Early Christian period was facilitated by the development of a standardized building-yard. Prototyped architectural typologies as well as building techniques and marble mass-produced architectural elements, mainly following ...
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Architectural Decorum and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome, Constantinople, and Ravenna
2018This dissertation explores in the ways in which decorum, or the appropriateness of form and behavior, served as an underlying principle in the patronage, design, and construction of monumental architecture, sculpture, and inscriptions by the aristocratic elite of late antique urban environments.
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Public Use And Privacy In Late Antique Houses In Asia Minor: The Architecture Of Spatial Control
Late Antique Archaeology, 2006Large numbers of visitors frequented the town houses of influential patrons in Late Antiquity. The owners responded to this increased public access, and hence met their heightened need for privacy, by adopting certain architectural measures to isolate and/or redesign reception rooms, especially audience halls, which received unpredictable numbers of ...
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Some Observations on the Late Antique Residential Architecture in the Troas
2013The archaeological excavations and research in recent years, provides to increase of our knowledge on residential architecture and give us very valuable information to understand the development of housing tradition in Anatolia. Besides by the excavations and research, the houses is exposed in the ancient cities which they used by people living ...
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Memories of Buildings? Messages in Late Antique Architectural Representations
2011The main themes of this volume are the identification of 'visions', 'messages', and 'meanings' in various facets of Byzantine culture and the possible differences in the perception of these visions, messages and meanings as seen by their original audience and by modern scholars.
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Elite Architecture and the Late Antique Ascetic Christian Communities of Cimitile and Sohag
Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansAbstract Paulinus of Nola and Shenoute of Atripe were prolific writers and architectural patrons of ascetic communities in the fourth and fifth centuries CE. Despite their rejection of luxury and elite culture, both were responsible for the construction of lavish church complexes at the hearts of those communities, in which architecture ...
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Choice and context in the late antique architecture: Questioning the Cilician Domed Basilicas
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