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Surroundings:

Dehes, East Church. Portal in South wallSyriac inscription from baptistery of DehesBashmishliBamukka, GraveBamukka, church and baptisteryKhirbet HasanQalb Loze in SyriaKfer. Plan of the chapel.Baqirha 2020Baqirha, Baptistery of the West ChurchBettirBettirJuwaniyeKhirbet Tezin, West portalPyramidal Tomb at KokanayaTomb of Eusebius at KokanayaNorth wall of the Soutch Church at KokanayaBabisqa / BabiskaPlan of BabisqaSarmada castle

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Ḩattān
  • geo:36.180065,36.61441
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • 4xx / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=67856

Annotations

The small one nave chapel near Banakfur built in the fifth century AD is quite extraordinary for having a parapet which C.H. Butler interpreted as iconostasis1. According to Daniel Hull  the chaple is located ca 6 km SE from Banaqfur,

Sources:

  1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 74-75, 76
  2. Poul Jørgen Riis, Temple, church and mosque. (Historisk-filosofiske meddelelser, Danske videnskabernes selskab, 40, 5.) Copenhagen: E. Munksgaard. 1965, p. 30 -  http://www.royalacademy.dk/Publications/High/651_Riis,%20P.pdf
  3. DanielHull, The Archaeology of Monasticism Landscape, Politics and Social Organisation in Late Antique Syria Volume III Appendices, 2006 - http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9939/1/485099_vol2.pdf

References

  1. also JP Riis, 1965,p. 30


Nearby

Banaqfur

Banakfur church.

Banakfur

Byzantine village of Banaqfur.

Dehes, West Church (1 km)

Dehes, Dēhes, Dahes, Dayhis.


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