continue our series about Stylites, launched last year. This time was much more thorough expedition, almost real.
first object - a pillar of the unknown Stylite in one of four monasteries in Telanisse, ie next to the monastery Simeon senior.
ahead - sohranivshisya part of a triumphal arch at the beginning road leading to the pillar of Simeon the Elder (I talked about it here and here ). Unfortunately, the arch was not included in the protected museum complex, and leading to her marble (? In any case, it is still good) the levels here are the servants of God imprinted on the right drag a metal plow. They, of course, in sovemu right: on these rocks plowing every scrap of land. local people, the Kurds, hardworking and friendly.
well ahead of the other side of a paved road can be seen the ruins of a network of monasteries, the prevailing around the St. Simeon. main monasteries there was four, and they form a square.
were in them and their Stylites, от одного из них даже сохранился столп. он в тех развалинах, которые виднеются в правой части горизонта (правая дальняя часть квадрата). желтая грунтовая дорога - This is our way to the pillar.
set off along the yellow road, which is clearly visible on the first photo.
to the right of ruins still pretty far away.
That's "far right" monastery. but we do not need the monastery itself, and stolnik, and this is still a bit away.
here is an old monastery well. Far down the mountain one can see the ruins of a major monastery of Simeon, from which it started.
some fragments preserved Crosses:
the walls - a belt ornament, corporate style architecture of the churches of northern Syria 6 century.
but remnants of the pillar is nowhere found, because here lived a normal monk, but not Stylites.
like this here looks neighboring monasteries. all the time feeling that we missed, or pillar, or local residents managed to recycle. although in this place too much difficulty in finding no. just not all at once.
Finally, the distance could be seen still some small ruins. obsleduem and (in the foreground - cultivated land cleared of stones and plowed, and on this earth there are grown olive trees - the main threat unguarded monuments.
and there he is a pillar. If you look closely, you'll see.
it is much wider than any possible here the columns and always alone. and most importantly, on its top carved crosses, and on the sides remain hollow. they were used for fixing the platform, on which stood Stylites. Here are the top of the pillar. spider in this photo has turned out not very good, but at the pillar, it clearly exists. top Pillars are right for a textbook on stolpnichestvu - how to make a pillar.
survived several parts of the pillar, they lie side by side. how could understand it is not in situ. apparently, a few years ago here a little bit cleaned up. in 1972, fragments of pillars were scattered.
to the very pillar is here this arch, planted stones. It was done in the unpreserved wall enclosing the territory Stylites, where there was a chapel, private well, and something else to stuff (in one of the following issues will be similar complex has been preserved almost completely).
in 530-s Telanissa monasteries were forcibly converted to Halkidonizm. in these areas specifically visited Ephraim Amidsky (known to many as a theologian), equipped with state authorities. most of the monks left the monastery, and the pillar was empty then. halkidonity found someone to occupy the monasteries, but not the pillar. with stolpnichestvom in halkidonitskoy environment was tight, despite for the great Simeon Stylites the younger under Antioch.
two local residents riding on one horse. the first one sends sms-ku.
photos Anna Chernova
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