11 Mayıs 2020 Pazartesi

Emirzeli (İmirzeli) - Mersin

Today's village settlement is established on the north and south slope. The ruins consist of two large slopes and a pit section. The columns of a peristyl-style house on the northern slope are still in place. Above this, there is a two-storey house belonging to the Early Byzantine Period. On the wide door lintel of this house, there is a cross in the middle and a peacock motif on both sides.


Again, a little further from this house is a Tower, which was built by Olbalı priests, was destroyed as it is today and dated to the Hellenistic Period. The symbol of phallos can be seen on the south wall of the tower. The southern slope of the settlement was used for the construction of churches. There are three consecutive churches here. These churches were numbered because their names could not be understood due to the lack of inscriptions about their construction. Some of the nartheks and apse of the first church (Church No. 1) in the west has survived to the present day. The eastern church (Church No. 3) was completely destroyed. Compared to these, it is seen that the middle church (Church No. 2) has reached today better. Again, all three of the churches here have basilical plan, three naves, and the middle naves end with a half-round apse in the east.

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