- Built by
- Attribution to be confirmed
- Period
- Late 5th c.
- Type
- Free-standing ceremonial arch
- Dimensions
- to be confirmed
- State
- to be confirmed
Provisional information. The marked values are not yet confirmed, and are shown as empty rather than estimated.
The arch stands on the Via Sacra and marks the threshold. Before it you are walking; after it you are arriving. Roman and Byzantine builders used this device constantly — a free-standing arch that carries no wall and defends nothing, and exists only to tell you that the ground has changed character.
Its presence here says something specific about how the complex was understood by the people who built it. This was not a monastery that happened to receive visitors. It was designed from the road up as a destination, with the sequence of arrival staged in stone.
Its dimensions, its decorative programme and its present condition are to be recorded on the site survey.