So-called Early Christian Basilica
Creators: Valeria Vitale
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/217728890
37.288239, 13.6029567
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Basilica Paleocristiana (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Basilica Paleocristiana (Italian, modern)
- Early Christian Basilica (English, modern)
- So-called Early Christian Basilica connection Akragas/Agrigentum (unspecified date range)
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basilica
Pleiades
The basilica was most likely built in the fourth century A.D. It has an entrance to the east and a single nave and a semicircular apse. In the floor of the nave two tombs are visible, possibly belonging to the martyrs Libertino and Peregrino.
Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, and Jeffrey Becker, 'So-called Early Christian Basilica: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/217728890> [accessed: 05 October 2024]
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