ERZİNCAN ALTINTEPE CHURCH WITH MOSAIC

Abstract

Altıntepe is situated in Eastern Anatolia and 15 km away from the Erzincan city center which is in the northeast direction. The castle, which is lying on a possessive situation for the Erzincan plain, is founded on a volcanic hill that has 400 m. in diameter and 60 m. in height (Fig. 1). The remnants of the castle, in which the clues of the first settlements reaches to the Bronze Age, belongs to the Urartian period1 . It is also understood from the ruins of the construct that are unearthed that the castle retains its importance in later periods2 . The church complex having mosaic pavements that forms our study’s subject is one of those remnants.

Keywords

• altıntepe
• mosaic
• basilica
• early byzantine
• justinianus