baptistery Complete

ID: 79

Building type: baptistery

Context:

church; village

Site:

Inscriptions:

97

Description:

Baptistery near the basilica, situated to the south of the basilical building. The baptistery much later than the basilica which probably comes from the ‘last quarter of the fourth century’. Find-spot of the Syriac inscription dated 513 CE. For a description and plan, 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. 251–253 and Ill. 260.