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Surroundings:

Deir Seta, BaptisteryBanqusa, South ChurchJuwaniyeNorth wall of the Soutch Church at KokanayaTomb of Eusebius at KokanayaPyramidal Tomb at KokanayaArshin, ChurchSyriac inscription from baptistery of DehesDehes, East Church. Portal in South wall

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Bīrat Kaftayn
  • geo:36.10207,36.644157
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 5xx / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=69465

Annotations

The large , square plan baptistery at Deir Seta was located in front of the southeast corner of the local north church and was probably built a little later than this. At the beginning of the XX century this baptisterium was inhabited as recorded H.C. Butler.

  1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 153

Nearby

Deir Seta, Hexagonal Baptistery

Sixth century baptistery at Der Seta.

Deir Seta, North Church

Deir Sita. Der Seta.

Byzantine archaeological site and modern village of Deir Seita

Byzantine archaeological site and modern village of Deir Seita.


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