The Early Christian Basilica in the center Acropolis was erected in the 6th century AD. This three nave church was discovered in the first years of excavations in Iasos. The flour mosaics discovered in the naves later disapeared. Some remains are housed in the Balik Pazari.
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- Marcello Spanu, The 2012 and 2013 Excavation and Research Campaigns at Iasos, in: 36. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı vol. 3, Ankara 2014, pp. 575-596 - https://www.academia.edu/13891359
- Diego Peirano, La basilica cristiana dell'acropoli di Iasos, in Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente, Supplemento 5. Forme del sacro. Scritti in memoria di Doro Levi, a cura di Fede Berti, 2019, pp. 167-184
- idem: Carian Iasos in Byzantine Times, in D. Moreau et alii (eds.), Archaeology of a World of Changes. Late Roman and Early Byzantine Architecture, Sculpture and Landscapes. Selected Papers from the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Belgrade, 22–27 August 2016) – In memoriam Claudiae Barsanti