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Syria 1962
Description
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These images were taken by John Ingham on a visit to Syria in 1962 and offered to the archive to enable a comparison of how the sites may have deteriorated over the 50 years since they were taken. This record is especially valuable as several of the buildings in this collection have now been destroyed by the so-called Islamic State.
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Emma Loosley
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John Ingham
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Architecture
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Umayyad Mosque Damascus
Description
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The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus is the earliest Islamic monument still extant after the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. As with the Dome of the Rock, the Mosque boasts a large volume of mosaic decoration of the highest quality that is believed to have been carried out by Byzantine artisans given the similarities of the technique and motifs with high-quality Byzantine commissions of the same era. The most notable difference is that there is a complete absence of figural imagery in the Islamic monuments. In the case of the Umayyad Mosque the decoration is particularly intriguing as it depicts a range of landscapes both urban and pastoral, all entirely without living creatures. This has led many commentators to argue that it represents a vision of paradise, with others arguing instead for an idealised representation of Damascus. Whether or not these interpretations are correct, the mosaicists appear familiar with Roman architecture, with porticoed late Roman villas appearing prominently in the decoration, meaning that the mosaics demonstrate a continuity with earlier artistic forms rather than a definitive break with the past. In many ways the decorative scheme is far more conservative than that of the Dome of the Rock, which predates is by over twenty years.
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Emma Loosley
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1962-07-29
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John Ingham
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Mosaic
1962
Architecture
Byzantine
C7th-C8th
Damascus
Dome of the Rock
Islam
Jerusalem
Mosaic
Mosque
Syria
Umayyad
Umayyad Mosque
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Damascus
Description
An account of the resource
Damascus is believed to ben the oldest continually inhabited city in the world and, as such, boasts remains from a wide span of historical periods. The material entered on this site relates to the Roman and Late Antique era and includes artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus
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Emma Loosley
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Emma Loosley
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Museum Exhibit
Architecture
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Roman Sarcophagus
Description
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This limestone sarcophagus is unfinished as the wreath is roughly blocked out in the lower part of the tomb, but the eagle on the lid looks relatively well finished.
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Emma Loosley
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2010-08-29
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Joshua Bryant
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Museum Exhibit
Damascus
Damascus National Museum
Limestone
Museum
Museum Exhibit
Sarcophagus
Sculpture
Syria
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Damascus
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An account of the resource
Damascus is believed to ben the oldest continually inhabited city in the world and, as such, boasts remains from a wide span of historical periods. The material entered on this site relates to the Roman and Late Antique era and includes artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus
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Emma Loosley
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Emma Loosley
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Museum Exhibit
Architecture
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General view of the garden of Damascus National Museum with Classical and Late Antique sculpture on display
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This image shows how sculpture is displayed in an outdoor context at the National Museum of Damascus as the collection is so extensive that only the exceptional works are displayed inside the museum.
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Emma Loosley
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2010-08-29
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Joshua Bryant
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Museum Exhibit
Damascus
Damascus National Museum
Museum
Museum Exhibit
Sculpture
Syria
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Damascus
Description
An account of the resource
Damascus is believed to ben the oldest continually inhabited city in the world and, as such, boasts remains from a wide span of historical periods. The material entered on this site relates to the Roman and Late Antique era and includes artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus
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Emma Loosley
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Emma Loosley
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Museum Exhibit
Architecture
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Limestone Funerary Effigy of a Man
Date
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2010-08-29
Description
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This limestone carving is a funerary effigy for an unknown man.
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Emma Loosley
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Joshua Bryant
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Type
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Museum Exhibit
Damascus
Damascus National Museum
Figure
Late Antique
Limestone
Museum
Museum Exhibit
Sculpture
Syria
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Damascus
Description
An account of the resource
Damascus is believed to ben the oldest continually inhabited city in the world and, as such, boasts remains from a wide span of historical periods. The material entered on this site relates to the Roman and Late Antique era and includes artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus
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Emma Loosley
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Emma Loosley
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Museum Exhibit
Architecture
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Sarcophagus with mythological figures and swags
Description
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This limestone sarcophagus is decorated with mythological figures and stylised foliate swags.
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Emma Loosley
Date
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2010-08-29
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Joshua Bryant
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Museum Exhibit
Damascus
Damascus National Museum
Figure
Limestone
Museum
Museum Exhibit
Roman
Sarcophagus
Syria
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Damascus
Description
An account of the resource
Damascus is believed to ben the oldest continually inhabited city in the world and, as such, boasts remains from a wide span of historical periods. The material entered on this site relates to the Roman and Late Antique era and includes artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus
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Emma Loosley
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Emma Loosley
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Museum Exhibit
Architecture
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Limestone Funerary Effigy of a Woman
Description
An account of the resource
This limestone carving is a funerary effigy for an unknown woman.
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Emma Loosley
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2010-08-29
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Joshua Bryant
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Museum Exhibit
Damascus
Damascus National Museum
Figure
Funerary Relief
Late Antique
Limestone
Museum
Museum Exhibit
Roman
Syria
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Damascus
Description
An account of the resource
Damascus is believed to ben the oldest continually inhabited city in the world and, as such, boasts remains from a wide span of historical periods. The material entered on this site relates to the Roman and Late Antique era and includes artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus
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Emma Loosley
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Emma Loosley
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Museum Exhibit
Architecture
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Carved Basalt Slab
Description
An account of the resource
This carved basalt slab contains cruciform imagery but is extremely unlikely to have come from a church, as such motifs were widespread in the Roman and Late Antique periods and often were intended as abstract designs rather than having an underlying meaning.
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Emma Loosley
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2010-08-29
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Joshua Bryant
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Museum Exhibit
Basalt
Damascus
Damascus National Museum
Late Antique
Museum
Museum Exhibit
Syria
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Damascus
Description
An account of the resource
Damascus is believed to ben the oldest continually inhabited city in the world and, as such, boasts remains from a wide span of historical periods. The material entered on this site relates to the Roman and Late Antique era and includes artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus
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Emma Loosley
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Emma Loosley
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Museum Exhibit
Architecture
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Basalt Door
Description
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These basalt doors are found across Syria, but generally most frequently originate from the Syrian Limestone Massif around Aleppo and Idlib provinces. They are found throughout the Late Antique period and were a particular feature of tower-houses occupied by multiple families. In some cases these doors have remained in situ, thus enabling us to see how they would have been far easier to operate than the modern viewer would expect.
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Emma Loosley
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2010-08-29
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Joshua Bryant
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Museum Exhibit
Basalt
Damascus
Damascus National Museum
Door
Late Antique
Limestone Massif
Museum
Museum Exhibit
Syria
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Damascus
Description
An account of the resource
Damascus is believed to ben the oldest continually inhabited city in the world and, as such, boasts remains from a wide span of historical periods. The material entered on this site relates to the Roman and Late Antique era and includes artefacts from the National Museum of Damascus
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Emma Loosley
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Emma Loosley
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Museum Exhibit
Architecture
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Roman Sarcophagus
Description
An account of the resource
This Roman sarcophagus in the gardens of the National Museum illustrates the working methods of Roman artisans as the decoration is roughly blocked out but crucially left unfinished so that the purchaser could dictate exactly how they wanted the object to be completed.
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Emma Loosley
Date
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2010-08-28
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Joshua Bryant
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Type
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Museum Exhibit
Damascus
Damascus National Museum
Museum
Museum Exhibit
Roman
Sarcophagus
Syria
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The Limestone Massif of North-Western Syria
Description
An account of the resource
An archive of photographs taken on the Limestone Massif 1997-1999. They provide a record of the late antique towns and villages that populated the region from the first century BC/AD and that reached their height in the fourth- to sixth-centuries before mysteriously declining from the first decade of the seventh century onwards.
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Emma Loosley
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Bennawi Bema Throne
Description
An account of the resource
The church of Bennawi, south of Aleppo, was reported destroyed by the 1950s when Georges Tchalenko undertook his monumental three volume study of the Syrian Limestone Massif. The basalt "bema throne" or pulpit was preserved and is now in the garden of the National Museum in Damascus.
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Emma Loosley
Date
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1997-02-15
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Emma Loosley
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Type
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Architecture
Relation
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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
Basalt
Bema
Bennawi
Damascus
Damascus National Museum
Inscription
Pulpit
Sculpture
Syria
Syriac
Syriac Inscription
Throne