Kafr Mū; Kefrmu; Kafer Mou; Kfar Mu Complete

Description

A village in Jabal al-A‘lā registered in TIB 15 on p. 1338 as Kafr Mū. Also spelt: Kefrmu, Kafer Mou, and Kfar Mu. Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest in TIB 15 gives scarcely any information on this site. It is known mainly through the finds of inscriptions by the Tchalenko's expedition. A baptistery was found, dating from probably the sixth-century, like the majority of such buildings in this area. Jarry claimed that a Greek inscription belonged to a tomb but this is not likely in the light of his second reading of this text. Literature: TIB 15 – Todt, K.P., Vest, B.A., Tabula Imperii Byzantini, vol. 15 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), p. 1338. Inscriptions (after TIB 15, p. 1338): Syriac inscriptions: Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches]’, Annales Islamologiques 7 (1967), 155, no. 27 (Syriac inscription from the baptistery naming a person styled as “our master”); Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches]’, Annales Islamologiques 7 (1967), 155–156, no. 28 (Syriac inscription). Greek inscription: Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches]’, Annales Islamologiques 7 (1967), 193–194, no. 125 with a corrected reading in J. Jarry, ‘Inscriptions de Syrie du Nord relevées en 1969, Annales Islamologiques 9 (1970), 188 (Greek, originally presented by Jarry as an epitaph engraved directly on the rock face and dated 101/102 CE; it names a certain Lucius (and?) Herennius or a certain Mneseos, son of Lucius Herennius; but the alleged name Mnesos is probably a misread formula ἐμνήσθη // he was remembered; hence it is most probably an ordinary remembrance inscription, not a funerary one).