In 2011 Francesco D’Andria announced that the tomb of the martyred apostle Philip been finaly discovered . It had been originally expected at the center of the octagonal hilltop martyrium. Eventually was discovered in a church 50 meters away. This church was built around the first century Roman in the 4th or 5th century., and the nearby martyrium was built probably at the same time,
Sources:
- George E. Bean, Turkey Beyond the Maeander. An Archaeological Guide, London Ernest Jersey 1971, p. 243-245
- Ekrem Akurgal, Ancient Civilisations and Ruins of Turkey: Fromhas Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empir, II ed., Istanbul 1970, pp. 175-177
- Francesco D´Andria, The Sanctuary of St Philip in Hierapolis and the tombs of saints in Anatolian cities, in J.R. BRANDT, E. HAGELBERG, G. BIØRNSTAD, S. AHRENS, Lıfe and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times. Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, Oxford and Philadelphia, 2016