The inscription found in ruins give the name of the patron of tke monastery and the date 624625 AD, according to E. Littmman. It is not rather the date of the foundation but of the repair.
Sources:
- Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 45
- 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, pp. 83-86