aṭ-Ṭuwayḥīna; Tall aṭ-Ṭuwayḥīna; Tuwayna; Twêné; Touainé; Isrīya; Seriana Complete

Description

A village registered in TIB 15 on p. 1850 as aṭ-Ṭuwayḥīna. Also spelt: Tall aṭ-Ṭuwayḥīna; Tuwayna; Twêné; Touainé. Our map gives the location of a larger nearby settlement Isrīya / Isriyé /Seriana Isrīya (= Seriana). The origin of this site is not clear and the information is scarce. Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest in TIB 15 note the presence of two watchtowers, and a monastery (which is inferred through the contents of a Syriac inscription). No Greek inscriptions were found so far at the site. Literature (after TIB 15, p. 1850): TIB 15 – Todt, K.P., Vest, B.A., Tabula Imperii Byzantini, vol. 15 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), p. 1850. Mouterde, R., Poidebard, A., Le limes de Chalcis. Organisation de la steppe en haute Syrie romaine (Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geutner, 1945), 91 (description of the area), Syriac inscription: Mouterde, R., Poidebard, A., Le limes de Chalcis. Organisation de la steppe en haute Syrie romaine (Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geutner, 1945), 226, no. 12 and fig. 45 (monastic character).