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The edicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Martin Biddle, THE TOMB OF CHRIST (Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, Glos. 1999). Pp. xii + 172, 103 figs. including colour. ISBN 0-7509-1926-4. £25.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2015
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4 A full report containing the detailed documentation is announced: M. Biddle, M. A. R. Cooper, B. Kjølbye-Biddle and S. Robson, The Tomb of Christ: history, structural archaeology, and photogrammetry (forthcoming).
5 These points were not spelled out as clearly in the 1994 article as they are in the book.
6 Ousterhout, R., “Rebuilding the Temple: Constantine Monomachus and the Holy Sepulcher,” JSAH 48 (1989) 66–78 Google Scholar.
7 John Skylitzes in Greek, Bar Hebraeus in Syriac, and Yahya ibn Sa'id of Antioch in Arabic.
8 As it was shown in the plan of Bernardino Amico (1591-96).
9 As favoured by Coüasnon and by Corbo.
10 Minor flaws noted include p. 129 where the narrow shelf of red stone above the tomb is attributed to the restoration of 1809-10, while in the caption to fig. 1 it is assumed that it was already set there in 1555; and note 5, mentioned on 135, is missing from the endnotes on p. 157.
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