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As elsewhere in the Mediterranean, from about the fifth century AD public patronage was redirected primarily towards the Church. The Great Basilica was the principal late-antique church at Butrint. Indeed, it is likely that a bishop was always present here between the 7th and 10th centuries. The edifice comprised a three ailed basilica with a tripartite transept.The original pavement appear to have been a figurative mosaic similar in style to that of the Baptistery.