KATO EPISKOPI Sitias - 2007
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
1782
Année de l'opération
2007
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Bains - Église - Canalisation - Citerne - Sépulture - Terre cuite architecturale - Os - Édifice religieux - Installation hydraulique
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Kato Episkopi, Kato Piskapi
Kato Episkopi, Kato Piskapi
Notices et opérations liées
2007
Description
Kato Episkopi. M. Katiphori (13th EBA) reports on excavation and restoration at the Church of the Apostles (Fig .1) conducted between 2005-2007. The structure (Figs 2-5) began as a Middle Byzantine bath-house (10th to 11th century AD). Its elaborate system of piping can be traced: water from a heated cistern at the east was taken to a hot plunge bath at the northern apse, and then drained out through the wall; hypocaust channels heated the middle large room from below; cold water, bypassing the cisterns, went straight to the cold plunge bath at the southern apse, and then drained out. Vertical flues in the walls circulated the warmed air. The entrance and changing area were set at the west. In this respect, it is typical of such baths of the late Christian, Byzantine and early Islamic periods. Its conversion to a church occurred during the Venetian period (probably late Venetian, perhaps 16th century AD). In the Ottoman period it fell into disuse: stores and animals were quartered there. In 1896-1897 it was reconsecrated. Six main burials were located within the structure, all Venetian in date.
Auteur de la notice
Don EVELY
Références bibliographiques
AEK 1 (2000), 211-22
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Date de création
2011-02-02 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-06 10:48:42
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Kato Episkopi Siteias: church of the Apostles.
Fig. 2/ Kato Episkopi Siteias: ground plan/ reconstruction of the bath-house.
Fig. 3/ South apse.
Fig. 4/ Arched opening at the eastern wall.
Fig. 5/ East part of the north wall.