Cambridge Ancient Hi.. - Index of

960 31. building and architecture
Fig. 57 Ephesus, plan of the pilgrimage church of St John the Evangelist as it was rebuilt with dome
by Justinian by 565.(B�baptistery; C�ciborium; S�synthronon.) (From Foss (1979) fig. 34)
with an outer ambulatory or aisle surrounding the inner nave; the sanctuary,
whether a single room or three, projects to the east. 69
A series of aisled tetraconch and related churches was built in the eastern
provinces between the later fifth and the mid sixth century. These had an
inner chamber defined by colonnades, surrounded by an ambulatory.
Churches of this design have been found in the provincial capitals of
Apamea, Amida, Rusafa and Bostra, as well as in the cities of Seleucia Pieria,
69 Krautheimer, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture 153–70; Mango, Byzantine Architecture 87–96,
101–23, 132–40.
Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008