Kafr Binnī; Kefr-Binné; Kefr Binneh Complete

Description

A village in Jabal Bārīšā registered in TIB 15 on p. 1334 as Kafr Binnī. Also spelt: Kefr-Binné and Kefr Binneh. Our map gives an approximate location. The site gained more attention from the expedition of Peña, Castellana, and Fernandez than from that of Tchalenko. Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest in TIB 15 mention an oratory, an oil press, and a sarcophagus. The presence of a monastery is also supposed. An ample collection of epitaphs in Arabic dates from the Middle Ages. As for the earlier periods, one Syriac inscription was recorded. 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. 1334 (with further bibliography); Tchalenko, G. (ed.), Villages antiques de la Syrie du Nord: Le Massif du Bélus a l'époque romaine (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1953), vol. 1, p. 153, 286; Peña, I., Castellana, P., Fernandez, R., Les cénobites syriens (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1983), 46, 49, 81, 178–181. Inscriptions: Littmann, E. (ed.), Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition to Syria in 1899-1900. Part IV: Semitic Inscriptions (New York: The Century Co., 1904), no. Syr. 3 (Syriac inscription).