medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, May 11, 2006, 9:44 am, Diana Wright wrote:
> John Dillon wrote:
>
> >Much of the rear of the building formed part of the late antique
> >basilica. For details, see R[ichard] Krautheimer, "An Oriental
> Basilica>in Rome: S. Giovanni a Porta Latina", _American Journal
> of Archaeology_
> >40, no. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1936), 485-495.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Wotthehell is meant by "oriental"
The second sentence of the article (which is available in JSTOR)
contrasts "Near Eastern and Byzantine architecture" with "the
architecture of the Occident". On p. 491, Krautheimer relates the
rooms (of the early basilica) that he thinks served as pastophories
to "Early Christian architecture of the Near East". I take it, then,
that by "Oriental" he's referring to what in his native tongue is still
called the "Vorderer Orient". And within which, to judge from a
discussion on p. 493, he includes Constantinople as well as "the
Eastern provinces of Byzantium".
>-- & how is it more oriental
> than any
> of a number of other basilicas in Rome?
That semi-hexagonal apse, for one. There's a catalogue of
such "Oriental" features on p. 493, followed on pp. 493-94 by the
assertion that the measurements of the early basilica do not make round
figures when divided by the Roman foot but do when divided by the
Byzantine foot of 0.31 meters.
Best again,
John Dillon
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