Butler, Howard Crosby; Princeton University [Hrsg.]: Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 3, Sect. A ; 7) (1921)

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Division III Section A Part 7

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τ·ι ι Μ //ΛΠ t n/
Inscr. 7959. Scale I : 10.

. . . . α(ν)ος | Η B .......
T4V κα0[αρσο (?) .

We have restored καΘ[αρσιν merely as a suggestion based on the presence of the
word in no. 694.

79510. Stele. Fragment of a stele found in the same portico,
width at base 21 cm. Height of letters

Height 26—33 cm. ■
5—6 cm. Copied by Butler.

ETI

Inscr. 79510.
Scale 1 : 20.



ετ(ών) A

79511. Block. Used as the lintel of a low door in the north wall of the village.
Length 1.43 m.; height 37 cm. Copied by Magie.



79513. Block. Used as a lintel over
of the ruins. The stone faces east. Length
5-9 cm. Copied by Butler.

Inscr. 79512. Scale I : 20.

ΘΑ|Μ*ο r^A^XQC
ZXAYCMO ye

the door of a stable in the eastern part
1.43 m.; height 29 cm. Height of letters
Θα(ί)μομαλεχος Δαυσμου ε ....
Ίaimu-Malik, (son) of Darts am, ....

Θαιμομαλεχος is a theophorous name, analogous to Θαιμαλλας and Θαψ.οό'ουσαρης;
see nos. 318 and 508. The name means ‘Servant of Malik’; on the name of the god
see Littmann, Entzifferung, p. 77. Both the reading and the interpretation of the
patronymic are doubtful. Δαυσμου, if the reading be correct, suggests Dausam, a
possible by-form of the name Daisam.

IL-UBER.
796. Block. Built into the wall of a small chapel near the centre of the town,,
see Div. II. a. 7, p. 427. The block is on the inside of the south wall, and quite