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Sacred Space Explorer / Chapels + upper spaces
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Gallery

Upper church space that could carry elite or imperial viewing and major images, including the Deesis in Hagia Sophia’s south gallery.

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Chapels + upper spaces

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Architectural location

Upper-level or elevated church space; access and function vary by monument.

Liturgical function

Can serve special audiences or functions; Hagia Sophia’s south gallery has imperial associations.

Iconographic convention

Hagia Sophia’s Deesis occupies the south gallery, showing that monumental devotional imagery also functioned outside dome/apse hierarchies.

Surviving monument evidence

Hagia Sophia preserves the primary BIU example.

Reconstruction boundary

Gallery function cannot be inferred from vertical position alone.

Uncertainty

Access, patronage, and use vary.

Portable-icon / later-practice boundaryPortable icon type or later Orthodox practice does not establish an original church position. Placement requires source-backed monument or relationship evidence.
Direct graph trails

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Figures + iconography

2 direct
Deesiscontains-type · example-backedDeesis← documented-in-zone · example-backed

Decoder + visual grammar

0 direct

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Materials + making

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History + chronology

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Places + monuments

1 direct
Hagia Sophia← contains-zone · source-backed

Zones + spatial models

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No direct edge in this part of the current graph.

Two-step navigation

Keep intermediate evidence visible.

  1. Figures + iconography
    Gallerycontains-typeDeesisincludesChrist
    Two-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
  2. Figures + iconography
    Gallerycontains-typeDeesisincludesVirgin Mary
    Two-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
  3. Decoder + visual grammar
    Gallerycontains-typeDeesisuses-hierarchyHierarchical Scale
    Two-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
  4. Decoder + visual grammar
    Gallerycontains-typeDeesisuses-compositionCentral and Flanking Figures
    Two-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
  5. Materials + making
    Gallerycontains-typeDeesis← used-forIvory
    Two-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
  6. History + chronologyTwo-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
  7. History + chronologyTwo-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
  8. Places + monuments
    Gallery← contains-zoneHagia Sophialocated-inConstantinople
    Two-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
  9. Places + monumentsTwo-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
  10. Zones + spatial models
    Gallery← contains-zoneHagia Sophiauses-zonePendentive
    Two-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
  11. Zones + spatial models
    Gallery← contains-zoneHagia Sophiacontains-zoneApse
    Two-step navigation path, not a new placement or causal claim.
Spatial source trail

Sources supporting this profile.

Smarthistory
Late Byzantine naturalism: Hagia Sophia’s Deësis mosaic
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3 bounded direct results · 12 bounded two-step paths · 2 navigation themes

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Hagia SophiaGallery ←contains-zone— Hagia Sophia · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-599.DeesisGallery —contains-type→ Deesis · example-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-146.DeesisGallery ←documented-in-zone— Deesis · example-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-601.
Visible two-step paths

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  1. Gallerycontains-zoneHagia Sophialocated-inConstantinople
    Two explicit edges; intermediate record remains visible.
  2. Gallerycontains-zoneHagia Sophiauses-zonePendentive
    Two explicit edges; intermediate record remains visible.
  3. Two explicit edges; intermediate record remains visible.
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Connected record

contains-type
Deesis
example-backed · Smarthistory
← contains-zone
Hagia Sophia
source-backed · Smarthistory
← documented-in-zone
Deesis
example-backed · Smarthistory

Source trail

Smarthistory
Byzantine architecture and monumental art after iconoclasm
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text-reference-only; image rights vary by credited work

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