Duwayr Rīḥ; Doueir Riḥ; Dayr Rīḥ; Burǧ ad-Duwayrīḥ; Rīḥ; ar-Rīḥ Complete

Description

An abandoned monastery in Jabal Bārīšā registered in TIB 15 on p. 1124 as Duwayr Rīḥ. Also spelt: Doueir Riḥ, Dayr Rīḥ, Burǧ ad-Duwayrīḥ, Rīḥ, and ar-Rīḥ. Our map gives an approximate location. Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest in TIB 15 mention typical features of a monastic establishment such as a walled courtyard and community buildings. The main church of the complex, a one-aisled structure with an annex was also found by the surveyors. Literature (after TIB 15, p. 1124): TIB 15 – Todt, K.P., Vest, B.A., Tabula Imperii Byzantini, vol. 15 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), 1124 (with further bibliography); Tchalenko, G. (ed.), Villages antiques de la Syrie du Nord: Le Massif du Bélus a l'époque romaine (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1958), vol. 3, 89; Peña, I., Castellana, P., Fernandez, R., Les cénobites syriens (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1983), 38, 46, 49, 176–177, 240, 253–254. Syriac inscription: Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches]’, Annales Islamologiques 7 (1967), 207, no. 151.