Browse Items (29 total)
- Collection: Sacred
Doug Boin, Shrine at the Horrea (Granary) of Hortensius
Doug Boin, Shrine at the Horrea (Granary) of Hortensius, 2016
This private shrine once existed within a busy granary in the port city of Ostia. According to the mosaic below the altar, Hortensius served as a…
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, Production Space, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism
Douglas Boin, View of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem
Douglas Boin, View of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, August 2006
In this picture, both of the domes of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Dome of the Rock are visible. The two have virtually the same…
Tags: Byzantine, Christianity, Church, Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Dome of the Rock, Domes, Islam, Jerusalem, Prayer, Temple Mount, Umayyad
Douglas Boin, The Dome of the Rock and the Dome of the Chain
Douglas Boin, The Dome of the Rock and the Dome of the Chain, July 2009
To the left of this image is the Dome of the Rock, while on the right is the Dome of the Chain. The latter building is a Muslim prayer house…
Tags: Dome of the Chain, Dome of the Rock, Islam, Jerusalem, Prayer, Temple Mount, Umayyad
LPLT, Ss. Giovanni e Paolo
LPLT, Ss. Giovanni e Paolo
Modern-day, outside image of the Basilica of Sts. John and Paul on the Caelian Hill in Rome (Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio). The…
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Culture, Domestic Living, Domus, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Sacred Spaces, San Giovanni e Paolo, Urbanism
Michael White, UT-Austin/Ostia Synagogue Area Project, Synagogue at Ostia, Fourth Century
Michael White, UT-Austin/Ostia Synagogue Area Project, Synagogue at Ostia, Fourth Century, 2016
While the initial creation of the synagogue in Ostia by its Jewish community remains unclear, this plan shows the synagogue in its final phase, after…
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, Judaism, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Synagoge, Urbanism
Omar Sanadiki, Courtyard of the Great Mosque of Aleppo in 2016, during the Syrian Civil War
Omar Sanadiki, Courtyard of the Great Mosque of Aleppo in 2016, during the Syrian Civil War, Reuters, 13 December 2016
Both the Great Mosque of Aleppo and the Great Mosque of Damascus were built in the same year: 715 CE. The structure in Damascus has been largely…
Tags: Aleppo, Islam, Mosque, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Umayyad
plotted by Doug Boin; based on map of Ostia from Archivio Disegni, Ostia Antica 11689, Distribution of Mithraea in Ostia, Third Century
plotted by Doug Boin; based on map of Ostia from Archivio Disegni, Ostia Antica 11689, Distribution of Mithraea in Ostia, Third Century, 2016
This map shows all fifteen Mithraea, archaeologically attested thus far. Eight date to the third century, four early in that century and four late. …
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Cultural, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Map, Medieval, Mithraea, Ostia, Pagans, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism
Revised by Ana Munk and based on Colini 1944, Reconstructed Cross-Section of Martyrium in Staircase Landing, c. 385-410
Revised by Ana Munk and based on Colini 1944, Reconstructed Cross-Section of Martyrium in Staircase Landing, c. 385-410, 2009
This is an architectural rendering of the added landing in the stairs for the martyrium, built c. 385-410, by Pammachius and Paulina.
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Domestic Living, Domus, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Martyrium, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Sacred Spaces, Urbanism
