Le destin d’une grande demeure d’Aphrodisias : la maison au triconque (À propos du livre de Michelle L. Berenfeld, The Triconch House, Wiesbaden, Reichert (Aphrodisias, IX), 2019)

Abstract

Destiny of a large house at Aphrodisias: the Triconch House Michelle L. Berenfeld presents the eleventh volume of the Aphrodisias Papers series devoted to the Triconch House. She provides the scientific community with a long-awaited publication on this domus, regarded by some scholars to be a governor’s palace, by others an episcopal residence. I entend to come back to the main conclusions on the architecture and decoration of this peristyle house, in the light of the typical reception rooms of the late residences. One of the main contributions of the publication is to provide us with a diachronic perspective of the history of the building, implemented from the outset in the urban fabric. The building was reorganized and decorated throughout Late Antiquity and, after a abandonment phase in the 7th century, regained its function as the bishop’s residence in the Medieval-Byzantine period. [Author]