Qirq Bizeh 1992
The village of Qirq Bizeh photographed in December 1992.
Emma Loosley
1992-12-01/1992-12-31
Cherryl & Richmond Hunt
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Archaeological Site
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.
Emma Loosley
1962-07-25
John Ingham
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Landscape
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 <em>bema</em> 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 <em>bema</em> 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.<strong><br /></strong>
Emma Loosley
1998-05-01/1998-05-31
1998-10-01/1998-10-31
Emma Loosley
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Emma Loosley, <em>The Architecture and Liturgy of the Bema in Fourth- to-Sixth-Century Syrian Churches</em>, TSEC 1, Brill, 2012 http://www.brill.com/architecture-and-liturgy-bema-fourth-sixth-century-syrian-churches
Architecture