Abū l-Qudūr; Abū il-Ḳudūr; Abū al-Qudūr Complete

Description

A village in Jabal al-‘Alā registered in TIB 15 on p. 810 as Abū l-Qudūr, also spelt Abū il-Ḳudūr; Abū al-Qudūr. Little is known about the site. There are some visible ruins of several ancient buildings. The dated evidence comes only from the sixth century, For a brief overview, see the comments of Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest in TIB 15, p. 810. They list the following major landmarks: a wall, a tomb, and architectural elements. The inscriptions yielded by the site come mainly from lintels. The following checklist after TIB 15, p. 810 includes: Syriac inscription: PAES IVB 2 - Syriac, just the year: dated 551/552 CE [= E. Littmann (ed.), Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909. Division IV: Semitic Inscriptions. Section B: Syriac Inscriptions (Leiden: Brill, 1934)] Greek inscriptions: PAES III B1, 34, no. 893 [= W. K. Prentice (ed.), Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909. Division III: Greek and Latin Inscriptions. Section B: Northern Syria (Leiden: Brill, 1922)] = IGLS IV, 307-308, no. 1869 (Phos, Zoe, dated 574/575 CE). J. Lassus, Inventaire archéologique de la région au Nord-Est de Ḥama, vol. 1: Texte; vol. 2: Planches (Damascus: Institut Français de Damas 1935), 201-202 = IGLS IV, 307-308, no. 1870 (Invocation of Christ on a lintel). See also: TIB 15 – Todt, K.P., Vest, B.A., Tabula Imperii Byzantini, vol. 15 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), p. 810.