Qaṣr ad-Dayr; Qaṣr ed-Deir Complete

Description

A village in Jabal al-Aʿlā registered in TIB 15 on p. 1603 as Qaṣr ad-Dayr (2). Also Spelt: Qaṣr ed-Deir. Different site from a village of this same name in Jabal Ḥalaqa [= TIB 15, p. 1603: Qaṣr ad-Dayr (1)]. This is a monastic site which was subject to limited surface surveys. Klaus Peter Todt and Bernard Andreas Vest in TIB 15 noted the presence of ruins of a monastery with a wall, a one-aisled basilica, and two towers - one within the monastery's enclosure, the other outside it. Literature (after TIB 15, p. 1603): TIB 15 – Todt, K.P., Vest, B.A., Tabula Imperii Byzantini, vol. 15 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014), p. 1603 (with further readings); 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, 170, 173, 345; Tchalenko, G. (ed.), Villages antiques de la Syrie du Nord: Le Massif du Bélus a l'époque romaine (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1953), vol. 2, Pl. CVIII; Tchalenko, G. (ed.), Villages antiques de la Syrie du Nord: Le Massif du Bélus a l'époque romaine (Paris: P. Geuthner, 1958), vol. 3, p. 102. Inscriptions: Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches]’, Annales Islamologiques 7 (1967), 156, no. 29 (CSLA.E01971). Cf. Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions de Syrie du Nord relevées en 1969, Annales Islamologiques 9 (1970), 187; Aggoula, B., "Studia Aramaica III: II. Deux inscriptions syriaques de la Syrie du Nord; III - Inscriptions syriaques de Syrie-Mésopotamie", Syria 69 (1992), p. 409, comments to no. 2 (Syriac; mentions a church named after Mary); Jarry, J., ‘Inscriptions arabes, syriaques et grecques du massif du Bélus en Syrie du nord [avec 42 planches]’, Annales Islamologiques 7 (1967), 156, no. 30 (Syriac, very fragmentary).