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 ; 2) (1908)

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complete; the walls have disintegrated and the arches are fallen; no part of the ruin
stands up above the general level; yet the ground plan of the church, with the buildings
on the south side of its courtyard, can be easily traced (Ill. 94), and all of the details

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of the buildings lie on the spot. The walls of the chamber on the south side of the
presbyterium are standing to a height of 2 m. or more; though they are almost com-
pletely buried in debris; parts of the south aisle wall are standing, though hidden, and
the piers of the southern arcade are preserved to a considerable height. Portions of
the walls of the chamber on the north of the presbyterium are in situ; but the pres-
byterium itself is filled with a heap of debris which makes it impossible to know whether
its form is apsidal or rectangular. But, since the apsis is almost universal in this lo-
cality, I have drawn in a semi-circular presbyterium. Only one pier of the; northern
arcade is preserved; the remainder of the piers and all the rest of the northern and
western parts of the church are buried in heaps of debris, and overgrown with asphodels.
There can be no doubt, however, that the north side is to be restored to match the
south side. The arches of the nave arcades lie where they fell; most of the voussoirs
of the five arches of the south arcade, those of the chancel arch and of the eastern-
most arch of the north arcade were found to have letters upon one face. These com-
pose inscriptions 1 which have the form of petitions to the Holy Apostles, for prayers

1 Div. Ill, inscs. 1006—1013.