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Butler, Howard Crosby; Princeton University [Hrsg.]
Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 3, Sect. B; 1) — 1908

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Kasr Ibn Wardan

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has been removed. After θ γ p and before the mutilated letter which I believe to be
a Δ there is room for six or seven letters. Of these the first three have left no trace:
the fourth seems to be a round letter, Θ or 0, though possibly the portion which
remains may have been originally a perpendicular line : the fifth might be Η, M or N:


Inscr. 906.
the sixth I believe to be lu, the seventh M. After the mutilated Δ and before K there
is room for one letter only, E, H or |. The figure of the indiction number is most
probably |: it may, however, have been Γ, and possibly even a very cramped B. The
following reconstruction is necessarily very uncertain and unsatisfactory, especially in its
most important part, the date.
+ ’ΑυζίλΘευ το προκίμεν[ο]ν ΰπέρθυρ[ον τ(οΰ) ■'/cm (έτους), ρ.(ηυος)] Δ[ί')(ου) x', iW. A +
The present lintel was put in place in the Sjyrdip) (year}, month Dios {8} 20th,
indiction 10. + (November, 561 a.d.)
The last part of the inscription might, with equal plausibility, be read ύπε'οΘυρ[ου
τ(οΰ) -ηνω'], Δ[ι'](ου) /: In the 858th year, i.e. 546 a.d.

907. Church. Lintel of the south portal of the church. See Div. II, Ill. 24,
25 and 26. The stone is 3.09 m. long at the bottom, and 79 cm. high. In the center


Lintel of Church. Inscr. 907.

is a handsome disk, with an eight-arm cross, 76 cm. in diameter. All the ornamentation
and the inscription are in relief. The letters are 10 to ii'/ocm. high.

Published by M.M. Mordtmann, Oestrup, Hartmann and Lucas: references are given under No. 908.
1. Α.ύΤ/7 r, πί/λη t,'j (disk) εποή^σευ ο' Κ(ύρο)ς '
2. dikatot εέσελ (disk) ευσοντε ευ αΰτ(·<).
This is the gate which the Lord has made: {the} righteous shall enter in it.
 
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