Posted on 01/18/2010 10:29:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The completion of the... third season of systematic excavations..., conducted at the site of Katalymmata ton Plakoton, of the Akrotiri peninsula, on the south coast, under the directions of the Senior Archaeological Officer of the Department Eleni Procopiou. During this season the excavation of the rest of the western part of what was most probably the narthex of a very important ecclesiastical building of the end of the 6th or the beginning of the 7th century A.D., which began in 2007, was completed. The narthex has a total length of 14m on an E-W axis and a width of 36m on a N-S axis. It consists of a raised central area, which extends to the west and terminates with an apse. On the east of the raised area, the stylobates of the aisles of the central nave have been found. The remainder of the nave has not yet been excavated. It has been established that this area communicates with the pulpit (ambo) and the Holy Bema to the East by means of a narrow corridor (solea) along the axis of the central aisle. The arrangement of the central raised area allows its identification with a mitatorium, (the area used by the clergy during the certain parts of the liturgies held at that period in the narthex). According to the Antiquities Department, it is clear from the above evidence that the building was planned and executed with great care from bishops with a deep knowledge of the religious rites and by the most skilled builders of the island or the empire, so as to honour those buried there, who must have been very important people but their memory, for some unknown reason, was not preserved in the tradition of the area.
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Talk about a misplaced modifier.
Meanwhile in Northern Occupied Cyprus the vandal muslim Turks and their secular buddies in the real estate world continue the looting and destruction of churches.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1768274.stm
For more information read this book:
War and Cultural Heritage: Cyprus After the 1974 Turkish Invasion (Minnesota Mediterranean and East European Monographs) (Paperback)
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It just shows you yet another example of the indifference, indeed disdain, in the West for Eastern Christianity. Recently, a Roman Catholic poster wrote to me in a PM to the effect that Orthodoxy could only wish to be of consequence. Sometimes I wonder why our prelates even waste their time with the Latins and the rest of Western Christianity.
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