DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.45618#0009
THE DJEBEL SIMCAN.
1153. DER SIM AN. Lintel, 334-5 a. d. A lintel upon the ground, about
150 yards northeast of the Southwest Church. Immediately west of it is a single block
of the architrave of the second story of a portico, in situ, resting upon a column and
a built pier, above two sections of the lower architrave. I suppose this portico to have
been part of a private dwelling, and the lintel to have belonged to its main entrance.
The inscription is incised in a dovetail plate. The plate itself measures by
34 cm.: the dovetails are ΐζ)1/^ cm. long. The letters, 10 cm. high, are formed by
broad, clear lines: they are unusually handsome and well executed, the curved lines
being almost perfectly circular. The last three letters are in the dovetail on the right.
ΡΟΥφΙΝΟίΕ
KTICCNGTOYc
'Ρουφΐνος εκτισεν έτους γπτ'.
Rouphinos bziilt (this) in (the) year 383. (334-5 a. d.)
1154. Tavern, 479 a. d. On the lintel of a doorway in a small group of buildings
on the north side of the
street which runs up from
the wadi into the town, con-
tinuing much the same line
as that of the sacred road
which, on the opposite side
of the wadi, led up to the
church and monastery of
St. Symeon Stylites. See
Div. II, b, p. 278. In the
center of the lintel is a
disk inclosed in a square,
measuring 5 1 cm. each way:
the first two lines of the
inscription are above this
square, the other lines at
the right side of it. The
second line is 1.47 m. long,
Entrance to Symeon’s Tavern. Inscr. 1154.
the third 39 cm. The let¬
ters, 5 to 7 cm. high, are rudely carved.
Published by Waddington, No. 2691. M. de Vogiie, S. C., Pl. 114 and Text, p. 128. A. A. E. S. 111, No. 121.
Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria, Div. Ill, Sec. B, Pt. 6.
22
1153. DER SIM AN. Lintel, 334-5 a. d. A lintel upon the ground, about
150 yards northeast of the Southwest Church. Immediately west of it is a single block
of the architrave of the second story of a portico, in situ, resting upon a column and
a built pier, above two sections of the lower architrave. I suppose this portico to have
been part of a private dwelling, and the lintel to have belonged to its main entrance.
The inscription is incised in a dovetail plate. The plate itself measures by
34 cm.: the dovetails are ΐζ)1/^ cm. long. The letters, 10 cm. high, are formed by
broad, clear lines: they are unusually handsome and well executed, the curved lines
being almost perfectly circular. The last three letters are in the dovetail on the right.
ΡΟΥφΙΝΟίΕ
KTICCNGTOYc
'Ρουφΐνος εκτισεν έτους γπτ'.
Rouphinos bziilt (this) in (the) year 383. (334-5 a. d.)
1154. Tavern, 479 a. d. On the lintel of a doorway in a small group of buildings
on the north side of the
street which runs up from
the wadi into the town, con-
tinuing much the same line
as that of the sacred road
which, on the opposite side
of the wadi, led up to the
church and monastery of
St. Symeon Stylites. See
Div. II, b, p. 278. In the
center of the lintel is a
disk inclosed in a square,
measuring 5 1 cm. each way:
the first two lines of the
inscription are above this
square, the other lines at
the right side of it. The
second line is 1.47 m. long,
Entrance to Symeon’s Tavern. Inscr. 1154.
the third 39 cm. The let¬
ters, 5 to 7 cm. high, are rudely carved.
Published by Waddington, No. 2691. M. de Vogiie, S. C., Pl. 114 and Text, p. 128. A. A. E. S. 111, No. 121.
Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria, Div. Ill, Sec. B, Pt. 6.
22