TY - BOOK AU - Leeming, Emma Loosley AU - Leeming,Emma Loosley TI - Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural Interaction Between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity SN - 9789004375314 U1 - B54 PY - 2018/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Syrians, assyrians, orthodox, chalcedonians and monophysites or non chalcedonians:The problems of Identifying the thirteen fathers ............9 2. A parallel evolution? Issues in Vernacular architecture and the development of church building in Syria and georgia ....................28 3. The mistery of the missing objects: Do archaeological artefacts and liturgical objects support the story of syrians in kartli?..................52 4. Symeon and his followers : Stylitism as a Cultural trend between syria and georgia ....85 5. The evidence written in stone................103 6. The syrian bema and the georgian pre-altar cross...............130 7. An argument from silence ..................149 8. The unknown factors: Evidence from the cave monasteries and the significance of Georgian vernacular religion as a relic of Earlier ritual practices .........167 ER -