KATO EPISKOPI Sitias - 2007
General Information
Record ID
1782
Activity Date
2007
Chronology
Key-words
Bath - Church - Pipe/drain - Cistern - Tomb - Architectural terracotta - Bone - Religious building - Hydraulic installation
Type of Operation
Institution
Localisation
Toponym
Kato Episkopi, Kato Piskapi
Kato Episkopi, Kato Piskapi
Linked Record
2007
Report
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.
Author
Don EVELY
Bibliographic reference(s)
AEK 1 (2000), 211-22
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Date of creation
2011-02-02 00:00:00
Last modification
2023-10-06 10:48:42
Picture(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.