El. knyga: Hagia Sophia in Context: An Archaeological Re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople

Preface

Terminology and conventions

Acknowledgments

 

Chapter 1: Introduction

The Patriarchal complex

The Hagia Sophia Project 20042018

Methods and practical constraints

 

Chapter 2: The undiscovered church: Hagia Sophia before Justinian

Introduction

Fourth-century structures

Fifth-century structures

Features below the sixth-century church identified in other recent work

Conclusion

 

Chapter 3: New light on Justinians Hagia Sophia

Introduction

Buttress piers, their external staircase towers and the corner staircases in
the base of the dome

The Vestibules

The access ramps

Newly recorded sixth-century decoration

Marble veneer on the church exterior

Structures southwest of the Justinianic church: the Patriarchal palace

Structures surrounding the Large Hall

The southwest vestibule of the church

The Baptistery south of the church

A large rectilinear structure north of the sixth-century church

Marble paving around the church and evidence for surrounding courtyards

Archaeology and liturgy in Justinians church

Conclusion

 

Chapter 4: Revealing the Byzantine cathedral: Hagia Sophia after Justinian

Introduction

The Skeuophylakion

North-east and south-east vestibules

The north-east ramp

Post-sixth-century modifications to the Patriarchate

Identifying the Large Hall and associated structures with the later
textually-attested additions to the Patriarchal palace

The Baptistery

The buttresses

The south-west buttress

The south middle buttress

The north middle buttress

The north-east buttress

The west flying buttresses

The remaining buttresses

Archaeology and liturgy after the sixth century

Conclusion

 

Chapter 5: Sixth-century Hagia Sophia in its wider context

Introduction

Hagia Sophia in the context of surrounding structures and landscape features

Building Orthodoxy in sixth-century Constantinople

 

Bibliography

Ken Dark is Associate Professor in Archaeology and History at the University of Reading, where he was Director of the Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from 2001 until 2016. Between 1997 and 2004 he co-directed the British Museum-funded rescue archaeology program for Istanbul, published in 2013 by Oxbow as Constantinople: archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis. Jan Kostenec is a member of the Czech National Committee of Byzantine Studies and the Czech Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology. His main interests are Late Antique and Byzantine archaeology and architecture.