The episcopal palace of Parnassos in Cappadocia and its Early Byzantine floor mosaics

IF 0.3 1区 历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY
M. Arslan, P. Niewöhner, Y. Yeğin
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Abstract The Roman mansio or way station and Byzantine bishopric of Parnassos in Cappadocia is chiefly known through inscriptions and bishops’ lists and identified with the small Turkish village of Parlasan/Değirmenyolu. It came as a surprise when a salvage excavation unearthed a large building with sumptuous floor mosaics beyond the outskirts of the village. Previous excavation reports misrepresented the building as a basilica church, when it was in fact an apsed hall and may be identified as the reception unit of an elite residence, as this article shows. A large central room had an elevated apse where the landlord would have sat. An animal mosaic in front of the apse is comparable to similar compositions in fourth-to-sixth-century urban palaces but avoids any reference to pagan mythology and employs stylistic features that are otherwise known from church floors. A mosaic inscription identifies the reception unit as belonging to the bishop and thus as part of the episcopal palace. This discovery is augmented by the find of a Late Roman sarcophagus and three Early Christian gravestones. Later, after the original palace was mostly destroyed, the building complex underwent a second, utilitarian phase that appears to date from the Invasion Period, when the Arabs raided central Anatolia from the seventh to ninth centuries.
卡帕多西亚的帕纳索斯主教宫殿及其早期拜占庭地板马赛克
摘要卡帕多西亚Parnassos的罗马车站和拜占庭主教区主要通过铭文和主教名单而闻名,并与土耳其小村庄Parlasan/Değirmenyolu联系在一起。令人惊讶的是,一次打捞挖掘在村庄郊区发现了一座带有华丽地板马赛克的大型建筑。正如本文所示,之前的挖掘报告将该建筑误传为巴西利卡教堂,而事实上它是一个后堂,可能被确定为精英住宅的接待单元。一个大的中央房间有一个高架后堂,房东可以坐在那里。后堂前的动物马赛克与四至六世纪城市宫殿的类似构图相当,但避免提及异教徒神话,并采用了教堂地板上的风格特征。马赛克铭文表明接待单元属于主教,因此是主教府的一部分。这一发现得到了一个晚期罗马石棺和三个早期基督教墓碑的发现。后来,在最初的宫殿大部分被毁后,该建筑群经历了第二个实用阶段,似乎可以追溯到入侵时期,当时阿拉伯人在七至九世纪袭击了安纳托利亚中部。
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Anatolian Studies
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期刊介绍: Anatolian Studies contains articles focused on Turkey and the Black Sea littoral in all academic disciplines within the arts, humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences as related to human occupation and history. Articles are in English and are accessible to a wide academic readership. Anatolian Studies is a refereed journal.
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