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as triconch churches in Lycia,135 inscribed apses with flanking side rooms in Cilicia,136
Docimian marble capitals as well as ambos and their local imitations in Phrygia,137 and
arcaded as well as barrel vaulted churches, often with wide nartices and galleries, in
Galatia and Lycaonia.138
In contrast, western Asia Minor, in spite of being by far the best researched region
with the largest and most numerous excavations of the longest standing,139 has so
far not revealed a distinct church architecture of its own, except for a certain kind of
ambo.140 Ambos were a new invention that could not very well be made from re-used
parts, and most every region developed its own type.141 Otherwise, church building in
western Asia Minor appears to have been informed by the re-use of ancient buildings
or parts thereof and by local antiquarian traditions, all of which differed from place
to place and made for a great variety of individual solutions, even within a single city
like Miletus.142 An explanation for this regional peculiarity may again be sought in the
greater number of old cities that distinguished western Asia Minor from other parts
of Anatolia and can explain why re-use and antiquarian tendencies were more marked
there.
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135 Niewöhner (2005/2006); Altripp (2010).

136 Hill (1996); Mietke/Ristow (2004), cc. 842-862; Westphalen (2015).

137 Niewöhner (2007); Niewöhner (2013b).

138 See above, note 126 on Binbirkilise as well as Niewöhner (2013c); Peschlow (2015).

139 Radt (2006); Dally/Ratté (2011); Niewöhner (2017a).

140 Acconci (2005); Niewöhner (2016a), pp. 116-117.

141 Niewöhner (2007), pp. 108-115; Niewöhner (2013b), pp. 242-245.

142 Feld (1996); Niewöhner (2016a).