Byzantine Aphrodisias: changing the symbolic map of a city

Abstract

Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0068673500005216How to cite this article: Robin Cormack (1990). Byzantine Aphrodisias: changing the symbolic map of a city.

Usurping the Urban Image: The Experience of Ritual Topography in Late Antique Cities of the Near East

“…1). This has led to a much clearer understanding of the Christian impact on the city, a subject previously explored in an article by Cormack (Cormack 1990a). In this section of my paper I will attempt to build on his work in the light of more recent research at the site and will also suggest that the various Christianized elements appear to have been connected in a more intimate way than may initially have been suspected (Figure 5) .…”

Reliquary crosses from Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias: intimacy and archaeology

“…The City Wall, erected in the fourth century AD, encloses an area of around 73ha (de Staebler 2008). Only a fraction of this intramural area, concentrated on the higher ground to the north and east, was occupied in the Middle Byzantine period (Nesbitt 1983;Cormack 1981;1990a;1990b;Roueché 2004;2007;Dalgıç 2012;Jeffery 2019). The grand basilica cathedral, erected in Late Antiquity, remained the focus of a medieval episcopal precinct (Cormack 1990a).…”

“…as a monumental city from the first through seventh centuries AD. The medieval settlement inherited the grand ecclesiastical architecture of its Late Antique predecessor, now situated within a ruralised village and episcopal outpost (Nesbitt 1983;Cormack 1981;1990a;1990b;Roueché 2004;2007;Dalgıç 2012;Jeffery 2019). The corpus of reliquary crosses from the site is in most respects entirely typical, with regard to both formal characteristics and find contexts.…”