Richard Piran McClary. “The Re-use of Byzantine Spolia in Rūm Saljūq Architecture.” bfo-Journal. Volume 1 (2015): Copy-Paste. The Reuse of Material and Visual Culture in Architecture.

This paper addresses the re-use of Byzantine spolia in the west of the Rūm Saljūq Sultanate during the early 7th/13th century. The focus is on two small mosques in Akşehir, along with two tombs in Konya and a madrasa near Isparta. The various symbolic, apotropaic and purely functional, structural uses of spolia are investigated and placed into the wider regional context.