Dayr Mākir; Deir Maker; Deir Makr Complete

Description

Dayr Mākir (also spelled Deir Maker/Deir Makr) is a village situated approximately 40 km south of Damascus. An Israeli archaeological team conducted a survey there in November 1973. The preliminary report from that campaign notes the presence of two structures, likely villas; decorative and worked stone elements; inscriptions in both Greek and Syriac; a pair of basalt niches apparently intended for statuary; and a fragment of a statue depicting a nude youth. The publication offers no additional analysis of these materials and provides no details about the inscriptions. Naveh, however, records his gratitude to members of the survey team for supplying a photograph of the CPA inscription. Plan source: Barkay, G. et al. 1974, fig. 1, p. 174. Further reading: Barkay, G. et al. 1974. "Archaeological Survey in the Northern Bashan (Preliminary Report)", Israel Exploration Journal 24, 173-184. Hoyland, R. 2010. Mount Nebo, Jabal Ramm, and the status of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Old Arabic in Late Roman Palestine and Arabia, [in:] M.C.A. Macdonald (ed.), The development of Arabic as written language, Oxford, 29-46. Naveh J. 1976. Syriac Miscellanea, Atiqot 11, 102–104.