house Complete

ID: 80

Building type: house

Context:

village

Site:

Inscriptions:

96

Description:

Ordinary house where a Syriac inscription dated 532 CE was found. Photograph 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. 253, Ill. 262. For a description, 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), p. 254. Poor quality of wall construction and ornamentation carved in support architectural elements.