1.1 | The base of the obelisk in the Hippodrome |
1.2 | Istanbul: Justinian’s church of St Sophia |
1.3 | A Byzantine empress, late fifth or sixth century |
2.1 | The Proiecta casket from the Esquiline treasure, Rome, late forth century |
2.2 | Ostrogoth-style buckle, late fifth–early sixth century |
2.3 | Coin of Theodoric the Ostrogoth (d. 526) |
3.1 | S. Maria Maggiore, Rome, built in the fifth century |
3.2 | The complex at Qalaat Semaan, Syria, with part of the pillar of Symeon the Elder |
3.3 | The huge site of Palmyra, built in an oasis of the Syrian desert |
3.4 | Pottery pilgrim token depicting St Symeon Stylites the Younger on his pillar near Antioch, late sixth–seventh century |
5.1 | The Barberini ivory |
5.2 | St Catherine’s monastery, Mt Sinai |
5.3 | The fortress at Zenobia (Halabiye) on the Euphrates |
6.1 | One of the classrooms uncovered at Komm el-Dikka, Alexandria |
6.2 | Mosaic of the first bath of Achilles, from the House of Theseus, Paphos, Cyprus |
6.3 | The shape of the world as imagined in the Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes |
7.1 | Serjilla, one of the ‘dead’ cities |
7.2 | An olive-press astride a former main street, Sbeitla, Tunisia |
8.1 | The ‘praetorium’ at Resafa |
8.2 | The city of Scythopolis (Bet Shean) |
8.3 | The refectory of the monastery of Martyrius in the Judaean desert |
9.1 | The Great Mosque at Damascus (early eighth century), built on the site of a Christian church and Roman temple |
9.2 | Nessana in the early 1990s |