A building site from a ruin. The Early Byzantine ecclesiastical complex within the Roman temple of Elaioussa Sebaste (Cilicia)
The Roman temple at Elaiussa Sebaste, dated to the early 1st cent. AD, was converted into a small isolated ecclesiastical complex in the late 5th-early 6th cent. AD. The Roman building was quite certainly partially in ruin when the new construction site was installed, having been partially damaged by an earthquake and abandoned.