H03 Bosra — Church 1

Summary information

• Location

  GPS coordinates: 32.51234, 36.48211

  Coordinates are approximate.

• Description

  Another much ruined church in Bosra presents a novelty of interior arrangement. Here we have what seems like a basilica of the ordinary type divided into six bays by columns, like those of Northern Syria (Ill. 117); but at the second bay from the east end the columns were replaced by two cruciform piers, and two pilaster piers in the walls carried three transverse arches across the aisles. The columns to the west of this are all represented by bases or standing columns; the two east of the transverse arches have been restored in the plan. The church is in such a dilapidated state that it is impossible to discover whether there actually were columns at these points, or whether broad, high arches connected the cruciform piers with the responds beside the apse.

  Howard Crosby Butler, Early Churches in Syria: Fourth to Seventh Centuries, Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology (Princeton, N.J.: Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1929), 118–19

• Phasing

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• Bibliogaphy

  Butler, Howard Crosby. Early Churches in Syria: Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology. Princeton, N.J.: Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1929.