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Location

  • Italy, Mazzarino
  • geo:37.31712,14.291561

Period or year

  • 4xx / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Paleochristian basilica

data access 79330

The remains of Christian sanctuary are a few hundred meters from the Filosofiana baths. It was a three-nave basilica with prothyron, and funerary crypt with two cellas in the S aisle. The basilica was surrounded by a cemetery. People were buried equipped with ordinary unpainted striated ware, lamps with Christian symbols, gold rings and earrings.

See:

  1. Ornella Fiandaca, Giuseppina Salvo, ArcheoGIS for the Roman Thermal Bath of Sofiana: Informative Support for a Digital Restoration, Heritage 2019, 2(2), 1530-1550; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage2020096
  2. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0006%3Aentry%3Dphilosophiana
  3. https://topostext.org/place/373143UPhi

Nearby sites

  • Sophiana
    Philosophiana-Sofiana. Thermal bath.
    Italy, Mazzarino
  • Sophiana (Philosophiana)
    Sophiana
    Italy, Mazzarino
  • Nakona
    Nakona
    Italy, Piazza Armerina
  • Latrine
    Latrine – Piazza Armerina – Sizilien – Italien
    Italy, Piazza Armerina

Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by robert mort (2022-08-23) , last updated by Elżbieta (2023-08-30), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/79330
Data downloads: KML, RDF
Suggested citation: Mort, R. and Elżbieta, Paleochristian basilica. https://vici.org/vici/79330, accessed 2026-11-13.