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890. Lintel, 582 a.d. A fragment of a lintel, on end and half buried, about 30
yards south of the preceding. Mr. Butler thinks that this may have belonged to the
doorway of an enclosed narthex of the church. See Div. II, Ill. 17. The stone at
present is i.i3I/gm. long and 75cm. wide: it is broken at both ends. A border,
6 cm. broad at the top and 41/2 cm. at the bottom, encloses a plate sunk below the
surface. In the center is a disk, 47 cm. in diameter, and on each side of it an upright
figure, perhaps a spear or perhaps a candlestick. These figures, the disk and the
inscription are in relief.
ECO
N I
In the year 8()4, month
582 A.D.)
Gorpieos 2nd, day —, indiction 1,
(September,
I am unable to read the end of this inscription, and I am inclined to believe that
two letters after the disk in the third and forth lines, and perhaps one letter in the
fourth line before the disk, have been chipped off the stone leaving no trace. The
inscription shows that here in the cAla, at least during the sixth century, the calendar
year began in September, to correspond with the year of the indiction series. See
also No. 843.
891. Vestibule (?). On a lintel, in situ, over a doorway opening into a small
apartment, about 12 feet square inside, the roof of which has been supported by an arch
running across the line of entrance, and supported on piers built out from the side walls,
that on the west side showing
several voussoirs. The entrance
faced the south. The west and
north sides are apparently in
their original state, and have
no openings of any kind. No
frame of a door or window can
be seen in the east wall; but
this wall is of later construction
than the others, and is now
partly destroyed. The entrance
to this curious apartment is com-
paratively wide, and the ceiling
unusually high. Possibly it was
the same sort of a vestibule as
that described under No. 822 or
No. 889: possibly the lintel is
Lintel bearing Inscr. 891.
not in its original place. Mr. Butler is of the opinion that this building was neither
a tower nor a tomb. For the walls are not sufficiently heavy for a tower, and it
seems improbable that a tomb was built in the midst of the dwelling houses, and with
so wide an entrance.
Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition to Syria, Div. Ill, Sec. B. Pt. 1.
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890. Lintel, 582 a.d. A fragment of a lintel, on end and half buried, about 30
yards south of the preceding. Mr. Butler thinks that this may have belonged to the
doorway of an enclosed narthex of the church. See Div. II, Ill. 17. The stone at
present is i.i3I/gm. long and 75cm. wide: it is broken at both ends. A border,
6 cm. broad at the top and 41/2 cm. at the bottom, encloses a plate sunk below the
surface. In the center is a disk, 47 cm. in diameter, and on each side of it an upright
figure, perhaps a spear or perhaps a candlestick. These figures, the disk and the
inscription are in relief.
ECO
N I
In the year 8()4, month
582 A.D.)
Gorpieos 2nd, day —, indiction 1,
(September,
I am unable to read the end of this inscription, and I am inclined to believe that
two letters after the disk in the third and forth lines, and perhaps one letter in the
fourth line before the disk, have been chipped off the stone leaving no trace. The
inscription shows that here in the cAla, at least during the sixth century, the calendar
year began in September, to correspond with the year of the indiction series. See
also No. 843.
891. Vestibule (?). On a lintel, in situ, over a doorway opening into a small
apartment, about 12 feet square inside, the roof of which has been supported by an arch
running across the line of entrance, and supported on piers built out from the side walls,
that on the west side showing
several voussoirs. The entrance
faced the south. The west and
north sides are apparently in
their original state, and have
no openings of any kind. No
frame of a door or window can
be seen in the east wall; but
this wall is of later construction
than the others, and is now
partly destroyed. The entrance
to this curious apartment is com-
paratively wide, and the ceiling
unusually high. Possibly it was
the same sort of a vestibule as
that described under No. 822 or
No. 889: possibly the lintel is
Lintel bearing Inscr. 891.
not in its original place. Mr. Butler is of the opinion that this building was neither
a tower nor a tomb. For the walls are not sufficiently heavy for a tower, and it
seems improbable that a tomb was built in the midst of the dwelling houses, and with
so wide an entrance.
Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition to Syria, Div. Ill, Sec. B. Pt. 1.
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