fort Complete

ID: 23

Building type: forts and fortifications

Context:

rural; monastic

Site:

Inscriptions:

27

Description:

A walled hilltop fort. Lies c.3.3 km to the east of the village. In the sixth century it no longer played any military function and was settled by hermits. Bibliography [after TIB 15, p. 1790]: Mouterde, R., Poidebard, A., Le limes de Chalcis. Organisation de la steppe en haute Syrie romaine (Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geutner, 1945), pp. 172; 277, no. 13; Pl. XCVII,4. Peña, I., Castellana, P., Fernandez, R., Les Reclus Syriens (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1980), p. 83. TIB 15 – Koder, J., Tabula Imperii Byzantini, vol. 15 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), p. 1790.