Ḫirbat Tīzīn; Khirbet Tēzīn; Tīzīn al-‘Atīqa Complete

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A village in Jabal Bārīšā registered in TIB 15 on p. 1289 as Ḫirbat Tīzīn. Also spelt: Khirbet Tēzīn and Tīzīn al-‘Atīqa. Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest note that former surveys provides very little information on the site. It is known mainly for ruins of a church with a Greek inscription dated 585 CE, and ruins of fifth-century houses. 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. 1289 (with further bibliography). Butler, H. C., Architecture and other Arts (Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition to Syria in 1899–1900 2, New York: Century, 1903), 214–216; 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), 204–206; Butler, H. C., Smith E.B., Early churches in Syria: fourth to seventh centuries (Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1969), 139, 141, 227 (inscription); Tate, G., Les campagnes de la Syrie du Nord (Beirut: Presses de l’Ifpo, 2013), 34, 98, 99; Strube, Ch., Baudekoration im Nordsyrischen Kalksteingebiet, vol. 2: Das 6. und frühe 7. Jahrhundert (Mainz: Zabern, 2002), 95-97; Weber, Th. M., "Syrien, Ägypten und Aksum. Das 'sanctuaire carré' – eine Sondernform des Altarraumes in der frühchristlischen Sakralarchitektur Westasiens und Nordostafriaks", in: D. Kreikenbom et al. (ed.), Krise und Kult. Vorderer Orient und Nordafrika von Aurelian bis Justinian (Berlin–New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), 213, 226, no. 2.9. Inscriptions: Syriac inscription: 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. 12 (Syriac graffito). Two Greek inscriptions, dated probably 402 CE, and a 585 CE: 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), 133, No. 1102 = IGLS II, no. 534 (from a house, date 402 CE); W. K. Prentice (ed.), Greek and Latin Inscriptions (Publications of an American archaeological expedition to Syria in 1899-1900 3, New York: Century 1908). no. 54 = IGLS II, no. 533 (from a church, dated 585 CE). Drawings after: PAES II B4, 204.