"The building centers on a trapezoidal court [seen here], its columns connected by low Byzantine arches" (MacKendrick, 132).
The remains of the "sumptuous governor's palace, of about A.D. 500, in which lived the beautiful and talented Theodora—unjustly vilified by Gibbon (following Procopius)—who was the governor's favorite before she married Justinian. The city wall forms its south side, and some of its rooms project into a bastion" (MacKendrick, 132).
MacKendrick, Paul. The North African Stones Speak. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Creation date unknown. Processing date unknown. Formerly cataloged as B.04.098. Notes written on the slide or index: Apollonia Central church.
Legacy Subcollection: "D: Appollonia"
