Year: 2012
Type: book
Abstract: This thesis explores the architectural and liturgical implications o f the nave-platform known as the bema. Whilst bemata have been discovered in Iraq and the Tur 'Abdin region o f Turkey, the largest concentration of these platforms occurs on the limestone massif o f north-western Syria. Bemata have been documented in archaeological explorations o f the region, notably by Tchalenko when he surveyed the massif in the 1950s, and liturgiologists have also addressed questions arising from the structure but this is the first interdisciplinary study o f the bema.
Source: BRILL eBooks
Author: Emma Loosley
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W107259945