DOI issue:
Lebanon
DOI article:Waliszewski, Tomasz; Périssé-Valéro, Ingrid [Contr.]: Chhîm: explorations 2005
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42091#0417
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CHHIM
LEBANON
ROMAN SANCTUARY (TEMENOS A AND TEMPLE C)
The present investigations within the
sanctuary were limited to a series ol
verificatory test trenches coupled with the
exploration of a cistern by the wall of
Temple C.
"TOWER" D
From the start of excavations at Chhim, the
structure referred to as Tower D has posed
a mystery as far as function, inner divisions
and chronology are concerned. Trenches dug
in 2004 along the south wall and the
southeastern corner of this structure, against
which Basilica B was constructed in a later
age, dated its walls to the 3rd century AD.2
The alterations introduced inside the
building by the builders of the basilica have
all but obliterated the inner divisions from
the Roman age. The only evidence were the
rock-cut foundation trenches discovered in
Fig. 2. "Tower" D. Early structures exposed in 2005
(Photo l. Perisse)
2 PAM XVI, Reports 2004 (2005), 414.
413
CHHIM
LEBANON
ROMAN SANCTUARY (TEMENOS A AND TEMPLE C)
The present investigations within the
sanctuary were limited to a series ol
verificatory test trenches coupled with the
exploration of a cistern by the wall of
Temple C.
"TOWER" D
From the start of excavations at Chhim, the
structure referred to as Tower D has posed
a mystery as far as function, inner divisions
and chronology are concerned. Trenches dug
in 2004 along the south wall and the
southeastern corner of this structure, against
which Basilica B was constructed in a later
age, dated its walls to the 3rd century AD.2
The alterations introduced inside the
building by the builders of the basilica have
all but obliterated the inner divisions from
the Roman age. The only evidence were the
rock-cut foundation trenches discovered in
Fig. 2. "Tower" D. Early structures exposed in 2005
(Photo l. Perisse)
2 PAM XVI, Reports 2004 (2005), 414.
413