Vici.org

Surroundings:

Resafa, Northern wallResafa, Southern wallResapha Great BasilicaResafa, Northern wallResafa, Southern wallResafa, Remains of beehive housesResafa, Northern wallResafa, Southern wallResafa, RoadResafa, Southern wallResafa, Northern wallResafa, Southern wallResafa, Northern wallResafa, Southern wallResafa, Northern wallResafa, Southern wall, GateResafa, Northern wallResafa, Southern wallResafa, Northern wallResafa, Southern wallResafa, Northern wallResafa, Southern wallResafa, Basilica BResafa, Basilica BResafa, Basilica BResafa, KhanResafa, KhanResafa, Northern gate, CapitalResafa, Northern gateResafa, Northern gate, Arch

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, ‘Ajal al Ḩumr
  • geo:35.628662,38.759502
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 5xx / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=23951

Annotations

Main Christian church of Sergiopolis. Saints Sergius and Bacchus were very popular throughout Late Antiquity.  They were venerated as a protectors of the army. They were Roman citizens and high-ranking officers in of the Roman Army of Emperor Galerius.

Sources:

  1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 11-162

Nearby

Sergiopolis, Basilica A

Byzantine church. Resafa, Basilica A.

Smaller Basilica of Sergiopolis [Basilica C]

Byzantine church. Byzantine church. Resafa, Basilica C.

Resafa

Resafa or Sergiopolis. Rusafa. Akkadian Raṣappa


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2015-12-22. Last update by Elżbieta on 2021-01-06. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/23951 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
Annotation available using the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. Metadata available using the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication, unless it is explicitly stated otherwise.

Vici.org partners:

Livius.org: articles on ancient history   Rijksmuseum van Oudheden