The church of Saint George Complete

ID: 205

Building type: three-aisled basilica

Context:

village

Site:

Inscriptions:

314

Description:

The church was laid out with three aisles, and two rectangular ‘sacristies’ were positioned on either side of the nave’s apse. The primary construction material consisted of basalt blocks. Its floors were covered with richly ornamented mosaics displaying a range of motifs; these mosaics also preserve inscriptions in Greek and Syriac. Image source: Campaneti 1995: 267, fig. 3, 4 For further reading: Brock, S.P. 2002. Some Basic Annotation to the Hidden Pearl: the Syrian Orthodox Church and its Aramaic heritage. http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol5No1/HV5N1Brock.html. Campanati, R.F. 1995. II mosaico pavimentale d’epoca umayyade della chiesa di S. Giorgio nel Deir al-Adas (Siria), [in:] A. Iacobini, E. Zanini (eds), Arte profana e arte sacra a Bisanzio, 257–269. Donceel-Voûte, P. 1988. Les pavements des églises byzantines de Syrie et du Liban. Décor, archéologie et liturgie, Louvain, 45–54. Hoyland, R. 2010. Mount Nebo, Jabal Ramm, and the status of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Old Arabic in Late Roman Palestine and Arabia, [in:] M.C.A. Macdonald (ed.), The development of Arabic as written language, Oxford, 29–46.