The Julianos church in Umm el Jimal is one-nave church. The inscription on the linteln of the middle entrance to the south after H.C. Buttler, 1929, p. 19.
This is the memorial of Iulianos, weight down with long sleep, for whom Agathos (his) father built (it), shedding a tear, hard by the bounds of (the) public cemetery of (the) people of Christ, to the end that better folk might forever sing his praises publicly, as being as being aforetime a trusty (son) to Agathos, (the) presbyter, well beloved, being twelve years (old).In (the) year 239 (344 A.D.).
Sources:
- Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 119 115
- Oskar Wulff, Altchristliche und byzantinische Kunst (Band 1): Die altchristliche Kunst von ihren Anfängen bis zur Mitte des ersten Jahrtausends — Berlin-Neubabelsberg, 1914, p. 210
- http://www.ummeljimal.org/doc/UJ%20Education%20Manual%20V1%20Screen%20EN.pdf
- Richard Bernheimer, “An Ancient Oriental Source of Christian Sacred Architecture.” American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 43, no. 4, 1939, pp. 647–668. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/498990. Accessed 6 Jan. 2021
