Items - Architecture and Asceticism

Amida/Diyarbakir's North Wall

A limited snapshot of some of Diyarbakir's northern range of defences. Images primarily of one tower and it's interior. The northern portion of the city walls has seen far more deliberate destruction to facilitate the building of roads wide enough for the modern city.

Type: Architecture
Tags: Byzantine, Defensive Network, Fortifications, Late Antique, Medieval, Roman, Turkey

Intervention 38/39 and the west end of the church, including the sarcophagus of Mar Elian

These pictures show the continuing excavations to the west of the former church and the sarcophagus, that had been in a lower section at the west end of the dismantled church.

Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Mar Elian, Mar Elian esh-Sharqi, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War

Site of the east end of the former 1938 church

This is a view of the east end of the 1938 church after the structure was dismantled.

Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Church, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Mar Elian, Mar Elian esh-Sharqi, Monastery, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War

View of over the site of the former 1938 church

This is a view looking north west over the site of the 1938 church after it was dismantled due to structural instability.

Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Church, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Mar Elian, Mar Elian esh-Sharqi, Monastery, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War

Intervention 38/39 and the west end of the former site of the 1938 church

This picture shows the continuing excavation of domestic chambers to the west of the 1938 church. In 2004 this church had to be dismantled as it was structurally unstable and the stone walls in this picture show the remains of the 1938 church.

Type: Archaeological Excavation
Tags: Archaeological Excavation, Archaeology, Architecture, Church, Dayr Mar Elian, Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Mar Elian, Mar Elian esh-Sharqi, Monastery, Qaryatayn, Syria, Syrian Civil War