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So-called Palace of the Dux

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Valeria Vitale

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Apr 22, 2024 07:36 PM — History

A large building complex located on the western hill of Apollonia, probably built between the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. Its position and size, the presence of a chapel with a reliquary, and some public rooms led Goodchild to identify it as the residence of the Dux.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589166546

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.901569931, 21.9697906623

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the so-called Palace of the Dux in Apollonia (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Casa del Cortile Lastricato (Italian, modern)
- Casa della Torretta Semicircolare (Italian, modern)
- Palace of the Dux (English, modern)
- Palazzo del Dux (Italian, modern)

So-called Palace of the Dux makes connections with:

So-called Palace of the Dux connection Apollonia/Sozousa (unspecified date range)

So-called Palace of the Dux receives connections from:

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Place type:
architectural complex

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The architectural complex seems to be somehow divided into three, entangled, areas. Kenrick 2013 calls the whole unit "Palace of the Dux". Stucchi 1975 uses that name only to refer to the larger, western part, while the middle one is called "Casa della Torretta Semicircolare" and the eastern part "Casa del Cortile Lastricato". Christian Monuments 2003 only speaks about the main unit and the one immediately next to it (what Stucchi calls "Casa della Torretta Semicircolare") and refers to both of them together as the "Palace of the Dux" (the eastern building is not included in the analysis).

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Suggested citation:
Valeria Vitale, and Jeffrey Becker, 'So-called Palace of the Dux: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589166546> [accessed: 30 December 2024]

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