Spätantike und mittelalterliche Vierstützenkirchen in Ägypten
Late antiquity and medieval Four-pillar churches in Egypt

Author(s): Peter Grossmann
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Christian Egypt; Christian Nubia; church architecture; spatial organization of churches
Summary/Abstract: The article offers an architectural analysis of a late antique and medieval type of church characterized by a naos with four pillars or columns supporting the roof. Variants that can be distinguished include one with a passage around the supports and another in which the supports form a cross-in-square. The analyzed type is poorly represented in the church architecture of Egypt, but is well attested in Lower Nubia. Nubian examples of the type give an idea of what the lost Egyptian prototypes may have looked like.

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