MAMA XI 155 (Pentapolis)
Byzantine architectural fragment
- Type of monument:
- Architectural fragment.
- Location:
- Odaköy (Pentapolis): in the mosque.
- Description:
- White marble hexagonal column with cabled torus and decorative capital, cut from a single block; cut off below. The capital has a defaced cross on the front, rosettes on both sides and a plain back.
- Dimensions:
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Ht. 0.66+;
W. 0.23 (capital), 0.22 (shaft);
Th. 0.23 (capital), 0.22 (shaft).
- Record:
- MB notebook copy, photograph (1955/35).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Middle Byzantine period.
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Odaköy is situated 3 km south-west of Karasandıklı, on the territory of ancient Brouzos. This column derives from a middle Byzantine church; it might be an iconostasis-pillar, as suggested by the plain back of the capital. A very close parallel is a middle Byzantine hexagonal engaged iconostasis-pillar from Koçhisar (Hierapolis), TIB Phrygien fig. 129 (identical cabled torus, but with palm-tree decorations on the capital).