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East facing elevation of the east wall of the tower and adjoining room
These images show the second external elevation of the tower at the SE corner of the cloister.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Monastery, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Tower
Detail of the southern cloister wall
The render was stripped back on the southern exterior wall of the cloister to look at its construction techniques in an attempt to date the monastery walls.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War
View of the 1938 Church of Mar Elian
This church was built in 1938 over the Byzantine sarcophagus of Mar Elian on the site of the earlier shrine. In 2002 it was discovered that the cement cladding enclosed a mud brick structure. When the church was surveyed and the cement was stripped back to alleviate a damp problem, it became clear that the church had become fundamentally unstable. It was dismantled in 2004 and the salvaged materials were used in the rebuilding of a new church on the model of the 1938 structure to the west of the shrine. The new building was made of stone and a traditional mud brick chapel was constructed over the sarcophagus, which remained in situ.
Type: Architecture
Tags: 1938, Architecture, Church, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Mar Elian, Mar Elian esh-Sharqi, Monastery, Qaryatayn, Sarcophagus, Shrine, Syria, Syrian Civil War
Interior views of the unrestored mud brick chamber
These pictures show the room to the north of the tower before it was restored.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War
Views of the mud brick tower and adjoining room in the south east of the cloister
These are the buildings that survived the termite infestation that destroyed the rest of the range.
Type: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Tower
Int 12 view of the wall and trench
In this picture the wall built outside the north of the cloister can be seen in context with the north wall of the church and the enclosure.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Excavation, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War
Walls in Int 12
The test trench abutting the north wall of the church and cloister revealed a wall parallel to the enclosure wall, suggesting that the cloister had contracted over time.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Excavation, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War
Intervention 14, test trench on SE corner of cloister, pre-excavation
This is the external SE corner of the cloister and is the corner with a mud brick tower. Stripping back the render revealed that the corner was constructed of two walls that abutted without being tied to each other.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Excavation, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War
Trench to the east of the 1938 church, recorded as Intervention 7 after twelfth day of excavation
A progress shot of the trench.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Excavation, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War
View of Int 12 with plaster stripped to reveal the state of the wall beneath
This was an attempt to explore how much of the 1938 church incorporated earlier elements of the mud brick shrine that had preceded in on the site. This was done by stripping back the plaster (called locally 'tineh arabiyeh') to see the formation of the bricks below. This possible because the walls were soon to be re-rendered and so local artisans needed to strip off the old plaster before applying the new layer.
Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Excavation, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War