basilica Complete

ID: 74

Building type: church

Context:

village

Site:

Inscriptions:

92 , 391

Description:

A three-asiled basilica following the plan of other churches in the area. It has an interesting chancel including a rectangular presbyterium and two squarish pastophoria. For a description of the church, see H. C. Butler (ed.) Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909. Division II: Architecture, Section B: Northern Syria (Leiden: Brill, 1920), pp. 204-206. Plan after H. C. Butler (ed.) Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909. Division II: Architecture, Section B: Northern Syria (Leiden: Brill, 1920), p. 205.