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The floor features a mosaic with geometric motifs and an inscription in the naos, which testifies that Bishop Eustathios renovated the church. In addition, remains of 4th-century frescoes (with geometric motifs, depictions of Saints and animals) are preserved on the Northern and Southern walls. In the first half of the 5th century, the second phase of construction began with the erection of the new Episcopal Basilica. This is evidenced by a Greek inscription on a lintel above the entrance to the naos, which names a bishop Philippos as the builder. \r\nThe old Episcopal Basilica was not destroyed, but filled in and used as a substructure for the new Episcopal Basilica, so that the former lay up to 5 m below the latter. Benches and columns from the Roman Theatre (see above) were used in the construction of the new Episcopal Basilica. From the Via Sacra, one first entered the atrium of the basilica in the West, then the narthex (mosaic floor with geometric motifs and animal depictions, frescoes of Saints on the walls). The naos has three naves, with the main nave separated from the side naves by columns. It has a rich interior decoration (architectural sculptures in white marble, mosaic floors, marble floors, fresco remains, crypt in the apsis area).\r\nPaul Clemen describes the archaeological endeavour by the German Army as follows: \"Nur eine planm\u00e4\u00dfige gr\u00f6\u00dfere Grabung ist w\u00e4hrend der Zeit der milit\u00e4rischen Besetzung unternommen worden. Im Gebiete der antiken Stadt Stobi hatten deutsche Offiziere von dem wichtigen Etappenort Gradsko aus Forschungen begonnen. Sie f\u00fchrten zur Entdeckung von drei Basiliken, deren eine, au\u00dferhalb der antiken Stadt in der N\u00e4he von Palikura gelegen, fast ganz freigelegt, aufger\u00e4umt und, infolge des lebhaften Interesses, das auch der Oberbefehlshaber, General-Feldmarschall von Mackensen, der Arbeit entgegenbrachte, soweit das unter solchen Verh\u00e4ltnissen m\u00f6glich war, gegen Besch\u00e4digungen gesch\u00fctzt wurde. Die Fortsetzung der gleichfalls begonnenen Freilegung der beiden anderen Kirchen, die in der antiken Stadt gelegen sind, wurde von den bulgarischen milit\u00e4rischen Stellen gehindert. Als ich im Sommer 1917 nach Stobi kam, ergab sich mir, da\u00df die auf halbem Wege steckengebliebene Arbeit kein wissenschaftliches Ergebnis zeitigen konnte, dagegen bei der unmittelbaren N\u00e4he des gro\u00dfen Etappenortes die aufgedeckten Reste sicherer Zerst\u00f6rung aussetzte, ehe sie wissenschaftlich verwertet werden konnten. Auf meine Verwendung bei Herrn Professor Filow fand sich die Direktion des Nationalmuseums in Sofia bereit, die Erlaubnis zur Aufdeckung bei den bulgarischen milit\u00e4rischen Stellen zu erwirken und diese zu vollenden, wozu die Landeskundliche Kommission Dr. Krischen zur Verf\u00fcgung stellen konnte. Herr Krischen hat dann 1918, nachdem er zuvor schon die in der deutschen Etappenkommandantur aufbewahrten Fundst\u00fccke genau bearbeitet hatte, mit Unterst\u00fctzung der bulgarischen Kommandantur in Gradsko, die eine Anzahl Soldaten zur Verf\u00fcgung stellte, zun\u00e4chst die gro\u00dfe Begr\u00e4bniskirche freigelegt, die wohl noch dem f\u00fcnften Jahrhundert angeh\u00f6rt. Die eingeschossige Basilika hatte einen pr\u00e4chtigen Mosaikboden, einen geometrisch geteilten und bis auf einige Felder mit Tierdarstellungen auch geometrisch geschm\u00fcckten Teppich. Bei seinem ung\u00fcnstigen Erhaltungszustande war an ein Fortschaffen oder an dauernde Erhaltung leider nicht zu denken. Doch sorgte milit\u00e4rische Bewachung f\u00fcr einstweiligen Schutz, bis eine genaue Aufnahme in gro\u00dfem Ma\u00dfstab fertiggestellt war. Dann wurde in der gro\u00dfen Basilika inmitten der Stadt, die wohl zweigeschossig war wie S. Demetrius in Saloniki, weitergegraben und dort eine F\u00fclle von Tr\u00fcmmern sehr sch\u00f6ner Marmorschranken mit durchbrochener Arbeit, Brocken von Stuckornamentik und Freskomalereien, Glasmosaiken und namentlich das oben S. 159 abgebildete prachtvolle Kapitell entdeckt. Alle diese fanden einstweilen in der deutschen Etappenkammandantur Gradsko Unterkunft, so da\u00df hier allm\u00e4hlich ein kleines Museum entstand. 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