Baptistery Complete

ID: 263

Building type: baptistery

Context:

church

Site:

Inscriptions:

415 , 416 , 417

Description:

At Ḫirbat al-Ḫaṭīb, Syriac inscriptions were documented in two places: on the lintel beside the former doorway and on the exterior face of the west wall. These inscriptions pertain to a modest baptistery whose layout is square in plan and which is dated to 532 AD. For further details, see: Butler, H. C. (ed.). 1920. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909. Division II: Architecture, Section B: Northern Syria, Leiden, 203.