Antioch on the Orontes; Antakya Complete
ID: 40
Region/Province: Syria I
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Description
One of the largest cities of the Roman East. Seat of the patriarchate. Because of the continuity of occupation, the archaeological research on the site has been limited. We list one Syriac inscription found at a church in the environs of the city Literature (general): A. U. De Giorgi, A. Asa Eger. Antioch: A History (London: Routledge, 2021). G. Brands, Antiochia in der Spätantike: Prolegomena zu einer archäologischen Stadtgeschichte (Berlin - Boston: De Gruyter, 2016) W. Mayer, P. Allen, The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300-638 CE) (Leuven – Paris – Walpole, MA: Peeters, 2012); G. Downey, A history of Antioch in Syria: from Seleucus to the Arab conquest (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961) Syriac inscription: Ḥ. Salame-Sarkis, Syria grammata kai agalmata, Syria 66 (1989), 314–319, no. 1 = Aggoula, B., "Studia Aramaica III: II. Deux inscriptions syriaques de la Syrie du Nord; III - Inscriptions syriaques de Syrie-Mésopotamie", Syria 69 (1992), 400–406, no. 1. .