3 Items
Qirq Bizeh 1992
The village of Qirq Bizeh photographed in December 1992.
Type: Archaeological Site
Tags: Late Antique, Limestone Massif, Qirq Bizeh, Syria
View from Qalb Lozeh towards Qirq Bizeh 1962
This image shows that in 1962 there was still a clear distance between Qalb Lozeh and Qirq Bizeh. By the late 1990s only two or three fields and a road separated the two ancient settlements.
Type: Landscape
Tags: 1962, Archaeology, Architecture, Jebel Barisha, Landscape, Limestone Massif, Qirq Bizeh, Syria
Qirq Bizeh
Qirq Bizeh is the name of a small abandoned settlement to the north of Qalb Lozeh. A C2nd villa was converted into a church in the C4th or C5th and retains the internal liturgical fittings that clearly identify the ritual use of the building. It is very small, but houses a bema and has a raised platform at the east end that is divided from the rest of the chamber by a chancel screen. There is also evidence of reliquary chambers in the screen and small reliquary caskets elsewhere. The bema retains its 'throne' or pulpit and the ritual use of the house extends to the courtyard where extensive cisterns seem to have housed water or olive oil in antiquity.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Bema, C4th, Jebel Il'Ala, Limestone Massif, Martyrium, Pulpit, Qirq Bizeh, Reliquary, Syria, Throne