The Study of the Early Byzantine Architecture of Chersonesos in the Сrimea: Progress or Dead End?
Journal: Hortus Artium Medievalium
Year: 2017

The Early Christian basilicas of Chersonesos in the Crimea have been studied for over a century and a half. There are about 20 monuments known today; almost all of them were discovered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite this, they remain poorly studied. Anatolij L. Yakobson’s book “Early Medieval Chersonesos” (1959) remains the only generalizing work in which the architecture, the mosaic and marble décor of the churches are examined together and in the context of the history of t