Burǧ al-Qās; Burdj il-Ḳās; Borg el-Qas; Borġ el-Qâs; Borj el-Kas Complete

Description

A village in Jabal Simʿān registered in TIB 15 on p. 1031 as Burǧ al-Qās. Also spelt: Burdj il-Ḳās, Borg el-Qas, Borġ el-Qâs, and Borj el-Kas. Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest in TIB 15 note the presence of ruins of a church, monastery, oil press, and a tower. Based on the evidence of dated one can assume that the site flourished in the fifth century. Literature (after TIB 15, p. 1031): TIB 15 – Todt, K.P., Vest, B.A., Tabula Imperii Byzantini, vol. 15 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), p. 1031; Butler, H. C. (ed.) Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1905–5 and 1909. Division II: Architecture, Section B: Northern Syria (Leiden: Brill, 1920), 315; Tchalenko, G. (ed.), Villages antiques de la Syrie du Nord: Le Massif du Bélus a l'époque romaine (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1953), vol. 1, 51, Anm. 2 and 153; Peña, I., Castellana, P., Fernandez, R., Les Reclus Syriens (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1980), 80, 116, 132, 187–189, 324; Tate, G., Les campagnes de la Syrie du Nord (Beirut: Presses de l’Ifpo, 2013), 98, 103, 107; Inscriptions: Syriac inscriptions: 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), no. 1189 = 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), no. 53 = IGLS II 373 = Jarry, J., “Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord (suite) [avec 9 planches]”, Annales islamologiques 9 (1970), 190, no. 4 (Greek and Syriac, dated 407; mentions an architect Ioannes, same as below); Greek inscriptions: 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), no. 1189 = 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), no. 53 = IGLS II 373 = Jarry, J., “Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord (suite) [avec 9 planches]”, Annales islamologiques 9 (1970), 190, no. 4 (Greek and Syriac, dated 407; mentions an architect Ioannes, same as above); 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), no. 1190 = IGLS II 374 and Jarry, J., “Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord (suite) [avec 9 planches]”, Annales islamologiques 9 (1970), comments on p. 190 (Greek inscription, dated May 493, mentions a construction under a certain Raboula, Barapsaba [or Rabula, son of Barapsaba], and a supervision by Kosmas, son of Leonides); Jarry, J., “Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord (suite) [avec 9 planches]”, Annales islamologiques 9 (1970), 190, no. 5 (Greek inscription, very fragmentary invocation of help). Plan: Tower and its environs after Peña, I., Castellana, P., Fernandez, R., Les Reclus Syriens (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1980), 375 Fig. 15.