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Album Name: As I
Site: Alahan
Country: Turkey
Region: Cilicia, South-Central Turkey
Location: 36° 42’ N, 33° 22’ E
Cultures: Late Antique, Armenian, Byzantine
Author: Robert W. Edwards
Year(s): 1973
Description: Color Transparencies

	Image	Description
	As I.1	view NW at the rock shelf and complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.2	view W at the rock shelf and complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.3	view NE from the once colonnaded walkway to the West Basilica (“Church f the Evangelists”) (at left) and the East Basilica (at extreme right in background) in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.4	view NE at the West Basilica (measuring 36 meters x 16 meters) with a nave and two aisles separated by two rows of ten columns in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.5	view SE at the jamb of the nave door (with a depiction of St. Michael above two female figures) of the West Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.6	view up at the lintel of the nave door (with a depiction of Christ supported by two angels[?]) of the West Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.7	view N from the west end of the south aisle across the nave toward the apse of the West Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.8	view SW from the apse through the nave of the West Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.9	view NW across the nave of the West Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.10	view NE into the apse and synthronon of the West Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.11	view SE into the diaconicon flanking the apse of the West Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.12	view SW from the Baptistery to the exterior east wall of the West Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.13	view NE from area near the West Basilica to the rock cut church in the cliff above at the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.14	view NW from the West Basilica to the rock cut chambers in the cliff at the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.15	view NW at the once colonnaded walkway between the West and East Basilicas in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.16	view SW from the once colonnaded walkway into the Göksu (ancient Calycadnus) Valley below (with Robert W. Edwards) in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.17	view of carved reliefs in the west half of the complex at Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.18	view of carved reliefs in the west half of the complex at Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.19	view E from the West Basilica to the exterior of the Baptistery in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.20	view from above and W into the interior of the Baptistery in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.21	view down into the cruciform-shaped font of the Baptistery in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.22	view down into the cruciform-shaped font of the Baptistery in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.23	view NW from the Baptistery to the rock cut chambers in the cliff at the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.24	view of fragmentary Greek inscription on tabula ansata in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.25	view SW from the once colonnaded walkway into the Göksu (ancient Calycadnus) Valley below at the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.26	view E at the exterior of the East Basilica (measuring 23 meters x 15 meters) in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.27	view N at the exterior of the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.28	view W at the exterior of the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.29	view from above and SW of the exterior of the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.30	view from above and SE into the interior of the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.31	view from above and S into the interior of the nave of the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.32	view SE from the narthex of the East Basilica to the west door of the nave in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.33	view of the reliefs on the jamb of the west door of the nave in the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.34	view E from the west end of the nave into the apse and into the tower above the east half of nave at the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.35	view E along the south aisle to the diaconicon in the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.36	view of a relief in the East Basilica at the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.37	view W from the apse through the nave in the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.38	view of a capital in the nave colonnade at the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.39	view NW into the nave at the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.40	view up into the nave tower at the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.41	view up into the nave tower, where each corner is supported by delicate colonnettes, at the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.42	view up at one of the carved corbels supporting the base of a colonnette in the nave tower at the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.43	view up at one of the carved corbels supporting the base of a colonnette in the nave tower at the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.44	view up at one of the carved corbels supporting the base of a colonnette in the nave tower at the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.45	view up at one of the carved corbels supporting the base of a colonnette in the nave tower at the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)
	As I.46	view S from the East Basilica in the complex of Alahan (Robert W. Edwards, 1973)

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