Quatrefoil church (Athens) Hadrian's Library
Quatrefoil church, ornate tetraconch (four-apsed) 5th c. church in Hadrian's library, Athens, destroyed 6th c.
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Latitude: 37.975350
Longitude: 23.726710
Confidence: High (20180512)
Time period: L
Region: Attica
Country: Greece
Department: Athens C
Mod: Hadrian's Library
[Judith Binder: 1) Quatrefoil Church with mosaic floors: at first [mistakenly] thought to be a pagan bldg. built at the beginning of the 5th c. A.C., Travlos, J. 1971, 244, figs. 321-323; construction [mistakenly] dated to the mid-5th c., destroyed at the end of the 6th c., idem, «To Τετράκογχο οίκοδομημα τής βιβλιοθήκης του 'Αδριανού» in Studies Mylonas, I, 1986, 343-347, fig. 1, pls. 54-57; [mistakenly] attributed to Eudokia by J. Burman, “The Athenian Empress Eudocia,” in Castren, P., ed., 1994, 83 and by A. Karivieri, “The ‘Library of Hadrian' and the Tetraconch church,” ibid., 105-113 and “The ‘House of Proclusʼ,” ibid., 126-127; [late 5th - 6th c.]]
Trismegistos Geo: 364
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