Reliquary casket
These pictures show the lid of a Byzantine reliquary casket that was discovered buried north of the altar of the 1938 church, along with a shattered glass vessel and the broken bases of two other Byzantine reliquaries.
Emma Loosley
2004-08-27
Niall Finneran
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Archaeological Find
Byzantine Reliquaries
The damaged remains of two Byzantine reliquaries were found during the excavations at Dayr Mar Elian. The lid of one replicates a Roman sarcophagus and the other piece is a base of a different size decorated with a motif of ringed circles.
Emma Loosley
2006-11-02
Emma Loosley
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Archaeological Excavation
Monastic Archaeology in Syria (2): the 2004 season at Dayr Mar Elian esh-Sharqi, Qaryatayn, Syria
This is the report (unpublished) of the final season of the Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project (DMEAP). It was submitted for publication to <em>Levant</em> but the manuscript was overlooked when the publication changed editorial staff and material was lost in the move.
Emma Loosley
2004-12-01/2004-12-31
Emma Loosley
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Emma Loosley & Niall Finneran, 'Monastic Archaeology in Syria. Excavations at Dayr Mar Elian al-Sharqi, Qaryatayn: a Preliminary Report on the 2001, 2002 and 2003 Field Seasons', <em>Levant</em>, 37 (2005), pp.43-56 http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/lev.2005.37.1.43
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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