Ḫirbat as-Sanad; Dayr (as-)Sanad; Deir Send Complete

Description

A village in Jabal Bārīšā registered in TIB 15 on p. 1287 as Ḫirbat as-Sanad. Als called: Dayr (as-)Sanad, and Deir Send. Our map gives an approximate location (the coordinates for nearby Maʿaz / Meʿez). Already the toponym points to the monastic character of the site. It was also, probably, rightly assumed by the surveyors who visited the site: Tchalenko’s mission (recording a "small monastery"), and the team of Peña, Castellana, and Fernandez. Using their repots, Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest in TIB 15 list a walled enclosure, a building with two rooms, a tower, a rock-hewn tomb, and a cistern. The inscriptions point to a floruit of the site in the fifth century. Literature (after TIB 15): TIB 15 – Todt, K.P., Vest, B.A., Tabula Imperii Byzantini, vol. 15 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), p. 1287 (with further bibliography); Tchalenko, G. (ed.), Villages antiques de la Syrie du Nord: Le Massif du Bélus a l'époque romaine (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1953a), vol. 1, 170, 181, 283 (described as an unnamed monastic location near Meʿez); Peña, I., Castellana, P., Fernandez, R., Les cénobites syriens (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1983), 134–135. Inscriptions: Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches]’, Annales Islamologiques 7 (1967), 148, no. 13 (Syriac inscription); Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions de Syrie du Nord relevées en 1969, Annales Islamologiques 9 (1970), 193, 208, no. 52 (Syriac inscription). Plan of the site after: Peña, I., Castellana, P., Fernandez, R., Les cénobites syriens (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1983), 134–135.