DOI issue:
Syria
DOI article:Waliszewski, Tomasz; Chmielewski, Krzysztof [Contr.]: Tell Amarna: restoration and excavation, 2000
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41368#0358
TELL AMARNA
SYRIA
probable, however, that the later phase of
the mosaic floor should be dated to the first
half of the 5 th century, while the earlier
occupation of the building belongs to the
turn of the 4th century.
The discovery of the church at Tell
Amarna is important in the sense that it
constitutes the first occasion when this
type of monument has surfaced in a part of
Syria that has yielded only modest
evidence of the Byzantine period. The
mosaic floor decoration is interesting as
well, the closest counterparts coming from
the 5th-century church at Dibsi Faraj, a dis-
tant 200 km away.3) A study of the finds
should bear new light on the still poorly
studied development of the Euphratensis
province in Roman and Byzantine times.
3) P. Doncel-Vouce, Les pavements des eglises byzantines de Syrie et du Liban (Louvain-la-Neuve 1988), 69-87.
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SYRIA
probable, however, that the later phase of
the mosaic floor should be dated to the first
half of the 5 th century, while the earlier
occupation of the building belongs to the
turn of the 4th century.
The discovery of the church at Tell
Amarna is important in the sense that it
constitutes the first occasion when this
type of monument has surfaced in a part of
Syria that has yielded only modest
evidence of the Byzantine period. The
mosaic floor decoration is interesting as
well, the closest counterparts coming from
the 5th-century church at Dibsi Faraj, a dis-
tant 200 km away.3) A study of the finds
should bear new light on the still poorly
studied development of the Euphratensis
province in Roman and Byzantine times.
3) P. Doncel-Vouce, Les pavements des eglises byzantines de Syrie et du Liban (Louvain-la-Neuve 1988), 69-87.
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