The road to Zar Zita approaches from the east through a rocky shallow valley that on the south side abuts the northern edge of Jebel Sheikh Barakat. Here the limestone has been carved for use as a series of hypogea and funerary reliefs that date from approximately the first century BCE until the second century CE.
Creator
Emma Loosley
Date of Visit
May 1998
Contributor
Emma Loosley
Rights
Metadata and all media released under Creative Commons
unless otherwise indicated
Type
Sculpture
Tags
C1st-C2nd, Funerary Relief, Hypogea, Jebel Seman, Jebel Sheikh Barakat, Limestone Massif, Syria, Zar Zita
Collection
The Limestone Massif of North-Western Syria
Citation
Emma Loosley, “Zar Zita,” Architecture and Asceticism, accessed October 31, 2024, https://architectureandasceticism.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/207.