The transformation of Pharaonic tombs into Christian hermitages and monastic dwellings is a defining feature of the monastic landscape in the Theban Necropolis, located on the west bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt. This paper will briefly outline the final results of long-term research—initiated by former field director Tomasz Górecki under the auspices of…
In the late fourth century a basilica was constructed in Uppenna (Henchir Chigarnia, Tunisia). Over the next two centuries this site became a hub for Christian burials, housing more than eighty funerary mosaics. These mosaics adhered to a consistent tripartite form: a chi-rho at the head, a central epitaph, and a lower decorative motif. While…
Yılanlı Kilise, a Middle Byzantine rock-cut church located in the Ihlara Valley of southwest Cappadocia, is widely cited but rarely written about in any depth. Its impressive painted program, which covers the entirety of the church and includes notable iconographic features, such as a monumental Last Judgment and even a demon in the Last Supper,…