3287872 Mosaic floor from the bema area in the early Byzantine church in Shiloh, West Bank, 380-420 AD (mosaic) by Byzantine; Samaritan Museum, Israel; (add.info.: A platform area for orations or, in synagogues for the reading of the Torah, also known as the bima or bimah. Tel Shiloh, north of Beit-El in the centre of Samaria, was the religious capital of Israel after the conquest of Canaan during the period of the Judges.); Photo 穢 Zev Radovan; out of copyright.