Dayr ‘Adas; Deir Adas Complete

Description

A settlement in southern Syria, located roughly 45 km south of Damascus. Following restoration activities undertaken in 1959 at the site, the remains of a church’s foundations together with its mosaic pavements were brought to light. In 1960, a campaign directed by the Syrian Directorate-General for Antiquities and Museums examined these mosaics; a selection was subsequently transferred to the museum in Damascus. On the site plan, CPA is indicated, although it is labeled “Syriaque.” Image source: Donceel-Voûte 1988, 46–47. Further reading: Brock, S.P. 2002. Some Basic Annotation to the Hidden Pearl: the Syrian Orthodox Church and its Aramaic heritage. http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol5No1/HV5N1Brock.html. Campanati, R.F 1995. II mosaico pavimentale d'epoca umayyade della chiesa di S. Giorgio nel Deir al-Adas (Siria), [in:] A. Iacobini, E. Zanini (eds), Arte profana e arte sacra a Bisanzio, 257- 269. Donceel-Voûte, P. 1988. Les pavements des églises byzantines de Syrie et du Liban. Décor, archéologie et liturgie, Louvain, 45-54. 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. Paweł Nowakowski, Cult of Saints, E01977 - http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=E01977