Neue Überlegungen zum Standort der oktogonalen Kirche in Antiocheia am Orontes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This article reconsiders the location of Constantine’s octagonal cathedral in Antioch, suggesting that it stood not on the island, as maintained by the communis opinio , but rather on or near the eastern section of the city’s main agora (also known as the „Forum of Valens”). The argument is based on a re-evaluation of literary testimonies and topographical indicators that have received limited attention in previous scholarship. The study emphasizes the spatial relationship between the cathedral, the agora, the episcopal residence, and the administrative core of the late antique city. Particular attention is given to the architectural symbolism of the building’s golden roof and its possible interaction with local light conditions shaped by the topography of the Parmenius gorge and surrounding elevations. In light of these findings, the article also reopens the question of the building’s later fate. While no direct evidence survives, certain textual indications suggest that the site may have remained in use and later been repurposed in the early Islamic period, in a manner comparable to developments in other cities of the region.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".