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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.
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).