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Les environs:

Il-Umta'iyeh, Church IIIl-Umta'iyeh, Church IVIl Umtaiyeh, Church IIIIl-Umtaiyeh, Church VIl-Umta'iyeh, Temple-MosqueIl-Umta'iyeh, Church VISameh, Monastery of St. GeorgeUmm is-Surab, SS Sergius and Bacchus

Localisation:

  • Syrie, Mutā‘īyah
  • geo:32.495461,36.292435
  • Précision incertaine

Period or year:

  • 4xx / unknown

Classification:

  • Sanctuaire
  • Visible

Identificateurs:

  • vici:place=67740

Annotations

Il n'y a pas une annotation en français. Présenté est une annotation en Anglais.

The north church of  Il-Umta'iyeh was probably the oldest church in the town. The inscription giving the date 508 AD is rather the date of the addition, i.e. a small chamber addet to the south side of the chapel .

Sources:

  1. Frank M. Trombley, Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529, Volume II, Brill 1995,p.320-321
  2. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 42
  3. Howard Crosby Butler eds.,  Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 2, Sect. A ; 2) — 1909, p. 92

The north church of  Il-Umta'iyeh was probably the oldest church in the town. The inscription giving the date 508 AD is rather the date of the addition, i.e. a small chamber addet to the south side of the chapel .

Sources:

  1. Frank M. Trombley, Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529, Volume II, Brill 1995,p.320-321
  2. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 42
  3. Howard Crosby Butler eds.,  Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 2, Sect. A ; 2) — 1909, p. 92

À proximité

Il-Umta'iyeh, Church II

Fifth century church in western Syria.

Il-Umta'iyeh, Church IV

Sources: Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 45

Il-Umta'iyeh

Roman and Byzantine village.