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Fig. 52 Constantinople, partial plan of the private palaces of possibly two praepositi sacri cubiculi,
Antiochus and Lausus, built in the early fifth century. Both houses had semicircular porticoes.
(From Bardill (1997) fig. 1)
Cyprus (with elaborate stucco decoration) (Fig. 53) and at Apamea in Syria,
the latter being occupied into the seventh century. Many of these late
antique houses were elaborately decorated and provided with sophisticated
amenities, such as those of the partially excavated house at Aphrodisias,
which had an intricate system of water channels and pipes and which was
ornamented with statues, two of which, attributed to the fifth century, were
recovered. 56
Multi-storeyed houses and apartment buildings, well known at Rome,
were apparently commonplace at Constantinople, judging from the legislation
made to limit the number of storeys permissible. No such buildings
56 Argos: Akerström-Hougen (1974); Carthage: Gazda (1981) 125–78 and Dunbabin (1982) 179–92,
p. 188�reconstruction of the house after a.d. 400; Apollonia: Goodchild (1976); Salamis: Argoud,
Callot and Helly (1980); Apamea: Balty (1984) 19–20, 471–501; Aphrodisias: Erim (1990) 27, figs. 29–30.
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