Villages dans les chaînes du nord du Massif Calcaire syrien: territoire et bâtiments privés et publics (IVe-VIe siècle)
The limestone region, situated to the northwest of Aleppo, is one of the rich-est archaeological zones in Syria. Several hundred archaeological sites in this region have been registered and interpreted by archaeologists as villages and monasteries. In a previous article published in OCP 2018, the mo...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | French |
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2020
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Orientalia christiana periodica
Year: 2020, Volume: 86, Issue: 2, Pages: 365-390 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Syria (Nord)
/ Archaeology
/ Village
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa KDF Orthodox Church |
| Summary: | The limestone region, situated to the northwest of Aleppo, is one of the rich-est archaeological zones in Syria. Several hundred archaeological sites in this region have been registered and interpreted by archaeologists as villages and monasteries. In a previous article published in OCP 2018, the monasteries and their chronology were already analyzed. In this article, the villages and their layouts and organization are discussed. Some of the villages, treated in this article, were built during the second century and witnessed a phase of a great economic prosperity and increase in population between the fifth and sixth centuries. Other discovered villages from this flourishing period were found with buildings of a variety of usages (public, private, and religious). In this article the inhabited centers are considered from a point of view of urbanism, based on the available data collected previously by archaeologists (Howard Crosby Butler, Georges Tchalenko, Georges Tate) and the Author, during the last survey conducted in 2010. Field studies have confirmed that the lands sur-rounding these settlements were well situated between the agr, the lands suit-able for cultivation, and the saltus, the rocky grounds. Even the villages, for the most part, appear to be a complex reality, where buildings were constructed following certain urban architectonic guidelines so as to take full advantage of the features of the landscape. The residential structures were built along the east-west axis in order to maximize the use of sunlight. The baths were built without gymnasiums, according to the rules dictated by the fathers of the Church. Arcaded streets have not been documented as they have been in the Roman or Byzantine metropolis; neither have there been found any shops (tabbernae). The roads display an irregular course, the dimensions of which vary from two to six meters. Reception structures are found near the borders of these villages or in tandem with the basilicas. |
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| ISSN: | 0030-5375 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Orientalia christiana periodica
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