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BEMA (Gr./Bf771a)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 713 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BEMA (Gr./Bf771a) , in ecclesiastical architecture, the semi-circular recess or exedra, in the basilica, where the judges sat, and where in after times the altar was placed. It generally is roofed with a half
dome
 . The seats, Bpbvoc, of the priests were against the
wall
 , looking into the
body
  of the church, that of the
bishop
  being in the centre. The
bema
  is generally ascended by steps, and railed off. Iu
Greece
  the
bema
  was the general name of any raised platform. Thus the word was applied to the tribunal from which orators addressed assemblies of the citizens at Athens. That in the Pnyx, where the Ecclesia often met, was a stone platform from Io to II ft. in height. Again in the Athenian law court counsel addressed the court from such a platform: it is not known whether each had a
separate
  bema or whether there was only one to which each counsel (? and the witnesses) in turn ascended (cf. W. Wyse in his edition of Isaeus, p. 440). Another bema was the platform on which stood the urns for the reception of the bronze disks (l,i~74 oc) by means of which at the end of the 4th century the judges recorded their decisions.


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