Chapel Complete

ID: 254

Building type: chapel

Context:

village

Site:

Inscriptions:

407

Description:

A Syriac epigraph identifies the building as a martyrion and provides a date of 525/526 CE. In architectural terms, it is a modest chapel terminating in an apsidal end. For further reference: Butler, H. C. (ed.), Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909, Division II: Architecture, Section B: Northern Syria (Leiden, 1920), 295.