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Aphrodisias Aphrodite temple Apse area

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English: The part of the former church that would have been the apse. At the time I took the picture it was roofed, I think that has changed since, looking at other pictures I found on the web. A very informative site about the Aphrodisias Excavations states "What remains today of the Temple of Aphrodite is really the Church into which it was converted in late antiquity. Both the Temple and the Church were imposing monuments whose separate forms can be reconstructed in detail." I think for the average visitor it will the hard to separate the two, to me it felt mainly as a temple, if only because of the many fine columns. But some elements obviously remained of the church. Temples did not have aan apse with a "choir" area. The cross on some ornaments does not smack of Aphrodite. When I felt on save ground I used church-terms, for the rest I just show the "temple".
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Camera location37° 42′ 35.42″ N, 28° 43′ 24.87″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

In 2020 this site provided fine information: http://aphrodisias.classics.ox.ac.uk/index.html

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