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The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey XXIV: A Late Roman and Byzantine Church at Souk el Awty in the Tripolitanian Pre-desert

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

Derek A. Welsby
Derek A. Welsby*
Affiliation:
Department of Egyptian Anliquities, the British Museum
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Abstract

This article reports on the work carried out by the UNESCO Libyan Valleys project in 1989 within the church at Souk el Awty in the Wadi Buzra. It includes a detailed analysis of the upstanding structure of the building together with the results of the trial excavations conducted within it. The place of the Souk el Awty church amongst the other churches in the pre-desert and on the coast is discussed, and dates suggested for its initial construction and subsequent modification when an eastern apse was inserted into the nave. The suggestion by some scholars that this eastern apse was the mihrab of a mosque is dismissed.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 22 , 1991 , pp. 61 - 80
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1991

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