Agios Georgios, Pegeia: three basilicas and a bath of the 6th century

The explanations distinguish finds, interpretations and open questions. Sources appear at the end of the page.

What the source says

According to the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus page on Pegeia, in the Paphos area, three basilicas and a bath were excavated at Agios Georgios in 1952-1955, and all of them are dated to the 6th century. According to the same page, the settlement flourished in the time of Justinian I (527-565). Source 1.

Three basilicas in one place

The source lists three basilicas and one bath and gives them all the same general date, the 6th century. A whole century is a wide span: it does not show whether the three churches were built together or one after another, or whether they were in use at the same time. The function of the bath and its relation to the churches are not described in the sources used here either. Source 1.

Prosperity under Justinian

The statement that the settlement flourished under Justinian I is the page's interpretation, and it narrows the 6th century to 527-565 for the prosperity only, not for each building. The sources used here do not say what evidence it rests on, nor when the settlement shrank or was abandoned. This page therefore dates none of the buildings specifically to Justinian's time. Source 1.

Placement on the timeline

The whole of the 6th century lies within the Early Christian period of the Department of Antiquities table, 395 to the mid-7th century, so the article is placed there. The question of what a settlement looked like in Justinian's time gets a partial answer here: it had three basilicas and a bath of the 6th century. Its plan, houses and livelihood are not described in the sources used here. Together with the basilica at Kourion, whose second phase is also of the 6th century, both items on the site for this period have a phase in that century. Sources 2, 1, 3.

Scope of reading: the Department of Antiquities pages cited here could not be opened for checking on 24 October 2026; the details from them follow notes taken from those pages at an earlier stage and were not re-checked. The reports of the 1952-1955 excavations were not read, so this page gives no plans, measurements or finds from the basilicas and the bath.