Ilissos EC basilica (Athens) Athens
Ilissos basilica, Early Christian basilica on the Ilissos river beside an earlier martyrium of Saint Leonidas, Athens.
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Latitude: 37.968300
Longitude: 23.736400
Confidence: High (20130000)
Time period: L
Region: Attica
Country: Greece
Department: Athens C
Mod: Athens
[Judith Binder: Basilica with mosaics, 5th c.?, on the Ilissos island, outside the eastward extension of the Themistoklean City Wall: [mistakenly] called the Basilica of Leonides, Travlos, J. 1971, fig. 154 no. 149; tacitly accepting a late 4th-early 5th c. date, J.-P. Sodini, “Mosaiques paleochretiennes de Grece,”, BCH 94 (1970) 702 no. 2, fig. 4:d; Spiro, M. 1978, 26-36; mosaic floors, now in the Byzantine Museum, including a stork attacking a snake, M. Kazanaki-Lappa, «Η Αθήνα απο την ύστερη αρχαιότητα ως την Τουρκική κατακτηση,» in ΑΘΗΝΑΙ 2000, figs. 6-7 (superb colour photography by S. Mavrommatis and N. Panagiotopoulos); [the basilica is no earlier than the 6th c.]]
Wikidata ID: Q57016121
Trismegistos Geo: 364
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