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Fidreh. Refadeh.
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about the center of the town. The house appears to have been ancient, but, in Pro-
fessor Littmann’s opinion, may have been rebuilt after the Mohammedan occupation.
The whole block is 1.78 m. long, by 37 cm. high. The inscription is 1.27 m. in
length, the letters 3^ to 5 cm. high: it is well cut and perfectly legible. Copied by
Professor Littmann.
+ TTGTPOCANToNINo1AKoNoCTHKToNHC + Πέτρος ’Αυτον!νο(υ, διάκονος, τηκτόνης.
+ Petros, son of Antoninos, deacon, {was the) builder.
The word τ^κτόνης seems to be a combination of τέκτων and τεχνίτες: it was per-
haps invented by Deacon Peter, for I have not found the word elsewhere. Perhaps,
however, Πέτρος, 'Αντονΐνος, ’ΐάκοβος, τέκτονες was meant.
1144. REFADEH. Fragment, 73—4 a. d. On the left end of a moulded block,
like part of a lintel or architrave, or of the cap of a pier or pedestal, lying in a pile of ruins
immediately north of the house with the Syriac graffito \ and about 50 yards south-east
of a colonnade2 with its roof-slabs intact, near the center of the town. At the top is
a large projecting cornice, 14 cm. high, and projecting 9 cm. Below this is a plain band,
14 cm. wide, and below this again a band 25 cm. wide, which bears the inscription.
The whole fragment is 67 cm. long at the top, and about 52 cm. high. See Div. II,
b, p. 254, Ill. 265. The inscription is incised, the letters being 4^ to 6 cm. high.
At the left of the inscription is a space, 19 cm. wide, where the surface has been
destroyed: doubtless there was some symbol here, which has been erased. I believe
the beginnings of the three lines have been preserved practically intact. I believe,
however, that the lines may be incomplete at the right, and that the inscription may have
been longer. Copied by Professor Littmann and the editor.
'Ετους βκρ' A
δωνις ΰαρ
ω και Μεα
Inscr. 1144· Scale 1:20.
The date of this inscription is the year 122, i. e. 73-74 a. d. The fragment is
very similar to the fragments found at Babiska and published under No. 1092 above.
The Babiska fragments are dated 143 a. d., and are believed by Professor Butler and
myself to be parts of the caps of the cheek-pieces of steps leading to some ancient
building, probably a temple.
At the beginning of the second line there are marks before Δ ίύ NIC which may
be the remains of a A; but I have not felt warranted in readingor ’Αδώνις.
1145. Tomb, 341-2 a. d. On a block above two rock-hewn arches, forming the
facade of the vestibule of a rock-hewn tomb, facing south, about 30 yards south-east
of the tower. The main chamber of the tomb is at the end of the dromos. It con-
tains three arcosolia, each containing two sarcophagi. The arches with their supports
and the whole vestibule, as well as the chamber, are hewn in living rock; but above
the arches are five blocks, without mouldings, in position like the frieze above an
architrave. The central one of these blocks bears the inscription. In the west side
Div. IV, Syr. No. 25.
2 House iv: See Div. II, b, p. 257 f.
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about the center of the town. The house appears to have been ancient, but, in Pro-
fessor Littmann’s opinion, may have been rebuilt after the Mohammedan occupation.
The whole block is 1.78 m. long, by 37 cm. high. The inscription is 1.27 m. in
length, the letters 3^ to 5 cm. high: it is well cut and perfectly legible. Copied by
Professor Littmann.
+ TTGTPOCANToNINo1AKoNoCTHKToNHC + Πέτρος ’Αυτον!νο(υ, διάκονος, τηκτόνης.
+ Petros, son of Antoninos, deacon, {was the) builder.
The word τ^κτόνης seems to be a combination of τέκτων and τεχνίτες: it was per-
haps invented by Deacon Peter, for I have not found the word elsewhere. Perhaps,
however, Πέτρος, 'Αντονΐνος, ’ΐάκοβος, τέκτονες was meant.
1144. REFADEH. Fragment, 73—4 a. d. On the left end of a moulded block,
like part of a lintel or architrave, or of the cap of a pier or pedestal, lying in a pile of ruins
immediately north of the house with the Syriac graffito \ and about 50 yards south-east
of a colonnade2 with its roof-slabs intact, near the center of the town. At the top is
a large projecting cornice, 14 cm. high, and projecting 9 cm. Below this is a plain band,
14 cm. wide, and below this again a band 25 cm. wide, which bears the inscription.
The whole fragment is 67 cm. long at the top, and about 52 cm. high. See Div. II,
b, p. 254, Ill. 265. The inscription is incised, the letters being 4^ to 6 cm. high.
At the left of the inscription is a space, 19 cm. wide, where the surface has been
destroyed: doubtless there was some symbol here, which has been erased. I believe
the beginnings of the three lines have been preserved practically intact. I believe,
however, that the lines may be incomplete at the right, and that the inscription may have
been longer. Copied by Professor Littmann and the editor.
'Ετους βκρ' A
δωνις ΰαρ
ω και Μεα
Inscr. 1144· Scale 1:20.
The date of this inscription is the year 122, i. e. 73-74 a. d. The fragment is
very similar to the fragments found at Babiska and published under No. 1092 above.
The Babiska fragments are dated 143 a. d., and are believed by Professor Butler and
myself to be parts of the caps of the cheek-pieces of steps leading to some ancient
building, probably a temple.
At the beginning of the second line there are marks before Δ ίύ NIC which may
be the remains of a A; but I have not felt warranted in readingor ’Αδώνις.
1145. Tomb, 341-2 a. d. On a block above two rock-hewn arches, forming the
facade of the vestibule of a rock-hewn tomb, facing south, about 30 yards south-east
of the tower. The main chamber of the tomb is at the end of the dromos. It con-
tains three arcosolia, each containing two sarcophagi. The arches with their supports
and the whole vestibule, as well as the chamber, are hewn in living rock; but above
the arches are five blocks, without mouldings, in position like the frieze above an
architrave. The central one of these blocks bears the inscription. In the west side
Div. IV, Syr. No. 25.
2 House iv: See Div. II, b, p. 257 f.