‘Temple’ Church/Qalʿat Kalūta Complete

ID: 84

Building type: church

Context:

church; village

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Description:

The basilica is built over an adapted polytheistic temple. Its shape, however, does not differ from regular buildings of this type and purpose – it has a round inscribed apse and pastophoria. As for the epigraphical yield, a Greek polytheistic inscription was found on a reused bloc, as well as an inscription on a nearby mausoleum. Plan after . C. Butler (ed.) Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909. Division II: Architecture, Section B: Northern Syria (Leiden: Brill, 1920), 320-321 Pl. XXVI.