ar-Rasm al-Aḥmar; Rasm el-Aḥmar Complete

Description

A locality in Jabal Jabal al-Aʿla registered in TIB 15 on pp. 1644-1645 as Rasm al-Aḥmar (2); also spelt: Rasm el-Aḥmar, ar-Rasm al-Aḥmar. The site has not been thoroughly studied but the ruins suggest that it has been occupied before Late Antiquity. Funerary architecture is well represented. A survey by Lauffray brought a Greek inscription while Mouterde & Poidebard also recorded a Syriac graffito. Literature: TIB 15 – Todt, K.P., Vest, B.A., Tabula Imperii Byzantini, vol. 15 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), p. 1644-1645 (Rasm al-Aḥmar [2]). C. Strube, Androna/al Andarin. Vorbericht über die Grabungskampagnen in den Jahren 1997-. 2001', Archäologischer Anzeiger (2003), 93. Inscriptions: Syriac inscription: Mouterde, R., Poidebard, A., Le limes de Chalcis. Organisation de la steppe en haute Syrie romaine (Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geutner, 1945), 176 fig. 19, 227 (Syriac graffito). Greek inscription: Mouterde, R., Poidebard, A., Le limes de Chalcis. Organisation de la steppe en haute Syrie romaine (Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geutner, 1945), 175–176, 217 no. 60 = IGLS IV 1847 = F. Alpi, La route royale : Sévère d'Antioche et les Églises d'Orient (512-518), vol. 2 (Beirut: IFPO, 2009), p. 54, no. J7