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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:
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.
 
 

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).

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 155 (Pentapolis 23: 1955-35)

MAMA XI 155 (Pentapolis 23: 1955-35)