The synthronon The restored one-step synthronon, as it is preserved today, is a semi-circular wall that

follows a trajectory concentric with the apse (pl. I and fig. 20, 22 and 32). It has an opening of 2.90 m, a
depth of 2 m, W = 0.74 m; Hp = 0.40 m; elevation: 0.6 m). The apse and the clerical bench are set 0.70 m
apart; in this semi-circular corridor between them no trace of pavement was identified. The northern
end of the bench is connected to the northern end of the apse by a wall, and we can assume that the
same situation occurred at the southern end, which is now lost. The entire structure was heavily
restored in the 1950s, and the only information we can provide with certainty is that it was built using
medium stones bound with earth. The presbyterium61 The Basilica no. 2 used to have a raised
rectangular platform in front of the apse (pl. I and fig. 22 and 32), which is only partially preserved (3.15
× 1.20 m), but the initial length (on a NNW-SSE direction) must have reached over 6 m. It is bordered by
a course of large slabs (0.35 × 0.80/0.85/0.90/1.15 m), one of which (the one immediately east of the
column base) preserves a groove (0.26 × 0.08 m) for fixing the cancelli slabs (fig. 37). At the platform’s
northwestern corner lies a column base (0.60 × 0.60 m), also visible in the old photographs (fig. 7 and 8),
to which the cancelli slabs on the northern and western side of the platform were affixed. From the
platform itself only three limestone slabs remain (1.10 × 0.85 m/0.84 × 0.82 m/0.72 × 0.76 m), and
between them and the column base at the corner, there is nowadays modern cement (we could not
identify any trace of mortar or earth as original binding material), which raises the question of the
degree to which the modern restoration affected this structure. What is certain is that of the four
smaller slabs to the southeast, only one appears in the old photographs and plans (fig. 7), and it is
impossible to identify with certainty which one it is. Fig. 37. Basilica no. 2’s presbyterium (detail of the
stone bases of the chancels screen). 61 For a discussion concerning this element, see Barnea 1958, p.
333-334, fig. 3; Duval 1980, no. 8, p. 327-328. 31 Histria. New research on the Early Christian basilicas in
the southern part of the acropolis 133