Hacıömerli
Coordinates: 36 ° 33 ′ 57 ″ N , 34 ° 6 ′ 34 ″ E
Hacıömerli is the name of a hamlet that today belongs to Esenpınar as a district , as well as the Turkish name for the ruins of a Roman - Early Byzantine settlement in the rough Cilicia in southern Turkey .
location
Hacıömerli is located at an altitude of 730 meters about ten kilometers northwest of Ayaş , the ancient Elaiussa Sebaste , to whose chora it probably belonged in ancient times, and 18 kilometers west of the district town of Erdemli in the district of the same name in the Turkish province of Mersin . It was on an ancient road that led from Elaiussa Sebaste into the highlands of Olba . Today the modern road from Ayaş via Karaahmetli , Esenpınar , Sömek and Cambazlı to Uzuncaburç (Olba) leads 250 meters east of the ruins.
description
The approximately 50 houses of the settlement were scattered on a low limestone knoll. Some door frames of the houses have been preserved in situ . On the eastern edge of the settlement was a church from the early Byzantine period. It was a three-aisled columned basilica with a narthex . Only part of the east-facing apse remains of the walls . Accordingly, the masonry consisted of neatly worked limestone blocks. From the western naos wall , the two profiled door posts of the door to the central nave are still in situ. The pillars of the interior are partly in the thick undergrowth, the capitals are dragged in the area. The apse had a clear width of 5.35 meters, it was pierced in the middle by a double arched window with a separating column, the left half of which is still visible. Remnants of the wall testify to a northern side apse which towered over the main apse to the east and had a door behind it. According to this, there was probably a corresponding room in the south, which made it possible to deal with the chancel. In the northern room, which was closed off to the east by a smaller apse, there was probably the baptismal font, which is now collapsed next to the remains of the apse walls, so that the room represented a baptistery . The cross-shaped piscina measures 1.31 meters on the outside, 1.11 meters on the inside and has a quatrefoil on the inside . A belt arch in the baptistery suggests that there was an upper floor and thus probably, as in almost all Cilician basilicas, also galleries .
The volutes of the window pillar and two pillar capitals suggest a date to the beginning of the 6th century.
Apse window
Doorpost of the western Naostür
Pillar capital
Baptismal font
literature
- Friedrich Hild , Hansgerd Hellenkemper : Kilikien and Isaurien. Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 5. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1811-2 , p. 266.
- Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Friedrich Hild: New research in Kilikien. Publications of the commission for the Tabula Imperii Byzantini Volume 4. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7001-0771-4 , p. 78.
