So-called West Gate of Apollonia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 31, 2020 05:17 PM
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History
An unusual structure close to the water edge, on the western side of Apollonia, refurbished in Byzantine times. The presence of Maltese crosses led to its interpretation as a martyrion, but an administrative role has also been suggested.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/190648274
32.9019862, 21.9661184
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the so-called West Gate in Apollonia (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Byzantine Rooms (English, modern)
- Martyrium Biabsidato (Italian, modern)
- West Gate (English, modern)
- So-called West Gate of Apollonia connection Apollonia/Sozousa (unspecified date range)
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architectural complex
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Kenrick (2013) sees the architectural complex, including a circular bastion near the sea and a series of rooms built in Byzantine times, as a single entity (the "West Gate"), while in Christian Monuments (2003) they are considered two separate ones (the "West Gate" and the "Byzantine Rooms"). Stucchi (1975) only refers to the Southern structure (the "Byzantine Rooms", that he calls "Martyrium Biabsidato"), with no mention of the bastion.
Valeria Vitale, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'So-called West Gate of Apollonia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/190648274> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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