Butler, Howard Crosby; Princeton University [Editor]: Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 2, Sect. B ; 1) (1907)

Kunbus.

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of the rail. One face is plain, the other is ornamented with a relief, very flatly exe-
cuted, which apparently represents one of the Syrian pillar saints, or stylite hermits,


the column

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and the figure upon the top of it
the column is a crude representation

at Kafiat Simcan
a direct line

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1 5. C. Pls. 139—148. A. A. E. S. II, pp. 184—191.
Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition to Syria, Div. II, Sec. B, Pt. 1.

1 in Northern Syria, not more
to the north of Kunbus where this

111. 13. Tell id-Deheb.

of the fifth and sixth centuries, like Saint Simeon Stylites, the most famous of these
hermits, whose pillar and great memorial church are still to be
seen in the ruins
than 85 miles in
relief was found.
In the relief,
are of about the same height;
of the Doric order, the figure is conventionally drawn in angular
outlines, like a child’s drawing of the human figure. The legs
are hidden by a long garment; the arms were not shown, unless
they were folded upon the breast and have been broken away; for
there are signs of crude cutting at this point. The head is high and
oval, with eyes and mouth barely indicated. From the top of the head
rises a large cross, above which a sort of arch is represented. This
arch, I believe, is only the top of the panel, and is not to be taken as part of the design.


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