Early Byzantine Christian Church

Description:

The observation that domestic artefacts are often recovered during church excavations led to an archaeological re-assessment of forty-seven Early Byzantine basilical church excavations and their historical, gender and liturgical context. The excavations were restricted to the three most common basilical church plans to allow for like-for-like analysis between sites that share the same plan: monoapsidal, inscribed and triapsidal. These sites were later found to have two distinct sanctuary configurations, namely a P-shaped sanctuary in front of the apse, or else a sanctuary that extended across.

subjects: Byzantine antiquities,  Christian antiquities,  Basilicas,  Excavations (archaeology),  Architecture, byzantine,  Israel, antiquities,  Jordan, antiquities,  Ausgrabung,  Basilika,  Byzantinische Liturgie