Red Basilica
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Ryan Horne
Creators: Ryan Horne
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 29, 2025 12:03 PM
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History
A Roman temple built above the Selinus river was originally constructed to worship Egyptian gods, most likely Isis and/or Serapis. In the Byzantine era, it was converted into a church of St. John. It was subsequently ruined, although the rotunda on the north side is still an active mosque.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/923431995
39.1219261251, 27.1835236863
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Kurtuluş Camii (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery location of the Red Basilica (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
- OSM location of South rotunda (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Red Basilica (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Kızıl Avlu (Turkish, modern)
- Red Basilica located at Pergamum (unspecified date range)
- Red Basilica connection Selinous (river) (unspecified date range)
- South Necropolis (Pergamon) located south of Red Basilica (unspecified date range)
church, building, basilica, mosque, temple
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- Related:
Pleiades
Ryan Horne, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Red Basilica: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/923431995> [accessed: 04 April 2025]
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Experiment to test "placeness" as the result of editor's board consensus on 19 September, 2014