Fitz Jenő (szerk.): Religions and Cults in Pannonia. Exhibiton an Székesfehérvár, Csók István Gallery 15 May - 30 September 1996 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: A. sorozat 33. (1998)

EARLY CHRISTIAN BUILDINGS - SOPIANAE, XIX. 1. CELLA TRICHORA Sopianae was especially rich in early Christian sepulchral buildings. The cemetery chapels erected above the tombs, the mausoleums of the martyrs were places of meeting of the Christian community. A three-lobed chapel of central layout, a martyrium. The central part measures 5,20x4,60 m. The walls were built of stone and brick. The graves were found during the 1922 excavation. The building had several construction phases. In the firts one erected from the early Christian period. Fresco fragments of white and black lines remained in the northern apse from this phase. This oldest layer was convered with an even now visible early medieval fresco, wich represents a curtain. In chapel was built and decorated with frescos for the first time in the last quarter of the 4th century. Excavations: 1922, 1955. D.G. 2. MAUSOLEUM - Frescoes The largest and most finely painted sepulchral building came into being with the transformation of an earlier burial place at the late 4th century. On its wall-paintings among others the scene of the "Fall" and "Daniel in the lions' den" are represented in its wall-paintings. On the easter wall, above the small niche there is a Christ-monogram surrounded by garlands. The niche is decorated by ears of weat. To the left from the niche Noah' Ark can be seen. While the frescos are from the the end of the 4th, the upper level of the building is of the 6th century. D.G. 118