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322 12. land, labour and settlement<br />

540<br />

To Harim<br />

590<br />

To Déhès<br />

550<br />

580<br />

570<br />

560<br />

560<br />

560<br />

Trackway<br />

Cultivable soil<br />

570<br />

570<br />

580<br />

Church<br />

To Harran<br />

590<br />

Cistern<br />

Tomb<br />

<strong>Ancient</strong> building<br />

Olive press<br />

SCALE<br />

0<br />

Fig. 5 The late antique village site <strong>of</strong> Bamuqqa in the north Syrian limestone massif. <strong>Ancient</strong><br />

buildings are in black; areas <strong>of</strong> cultivable soil, in pockets surrounded by bare rock, are in grey.<br />

(After Tchalenko, Villages ii, pl. xcii)<br />

happened after the early sixth century. In 541/2 a dreadful plague hit the<br />

east, subsequently spreading to the west and also recurring intermittently<br />

through the sixth and seventh centuries. The impact <strong>of</strong> this disease on<br />

Constantinople was graphically described by the historian Procopius, who<br />

witnessed it there and claimed that at its peak it killed over 10,000 people a<br />

day, while for Antioch the local historian Evagrius provides not only the<br />

detailed information that it had recurred four times in the city by the time<br />

<strong>of</strong> his writing in 594, but also the irrefutably circumstantial evidence that it<br />

<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Hi</strong>stories Online © <strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press, 2008<br />

510<br />

520<br />

530<br />

540<br />

550<br />

600<br />

560<br />

570<br />

580<br />

590<br />

600<br />

Church<br />

ˇ ˇ<br />

N<br />

To<br />

Baqirha<br />

610<br />

To<br />

Sermada<br />

MODERN VILLAGE OF BASMISLI<br />

100 200 300 400m

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