Η κοιμητηριακή Βασιλική του Δίου : τα προσκτίσματα
Part of : Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη ; Vol.6, No.1, 1992, pages 235-243
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the coemeterial Basilica at Dion
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Excavation at the Cemetery Basilica during the 1992 campaign of Dion brought to light part of the north and south annexes of the church. Along the north wall of the church there are two rooms of the same size. The western room communicated with the north stoa of the atrium by an opening, sealed afterwards. A built trapeza stands by the opening. The eastern room has a low bench running along the east and part of the north wall. A small, protruding apse is formed behind the bench, in the middle of the east wall; its floor and lower parts are laid with marble revetment. A low wall along its chord separates the apse from the bench. At the NW corner of the room there is a small reservoir covered by some kind of ciborium. We can distinguish two phases in the function of these rooms: the west room was used as prothesis and the east room with the bench as a ‘locus commemorationis’ relative to the prothesis, as testified by the Testamentum Domini. Later the function of pro thesis was transferred to the trapeza at NE cornerof the atrium, so the east room was made a baptistery and the west and auxiliary to the baptistery. Of the south annexes two rooms are brought to light; one, prolonging the narthex towards the south, was partly excavated in 1990. It was found empty, but traces of a drain at the SW corner, together with its two openings, to the outside as well as the narthex, suggest a diaconicum. Another room beside it to the west was equipped with a vine-press. The dating of the northern annexes according to the Testamentum Dominiagrees with the dating previously attributed to the church, around the middle of the fifth c. The later modifications cannot be placed before the middle of the sixth c.
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