Basilica, Palace of Justice

Basilica, Palace of Justice – Basilica from the beginning of ⅳ c. AD Identified as a public building – a courtroom, discovered in Skupi. It is located in the western part of the city, with the entrance oriented towards the main city-Sky street. The facility (27.5 x 21,70 m) consists of two rooms: a wide central hall and a rounded corridor in the shape of an elongated horseshoe. With a wide apkid wall is north-oriented. The central updated terminated hall has a mosaic floor with geometric decoration. The internal hall was with colonnade and arcade, from three sides separated from the surrounding corridor. Corinth capitals, placed on high columns on low, profiled apartments, were covered with rich profiled architrives and with common stone elements, mounted in massive masonry pillars. Lit.: D. Koranchevic, Scupi, Skopje, 2003; C. Lilcic, the Macedonian stone for the gods, Christians and life of life, Skopje, 2001, 164-173. C. L.


Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис БАЗИЛИКА, ПАЛАТА НА ПРАВДАТА

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