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Surroundings:

Kfer. Plan of the chapel.Khirbet HasanharencQalb Loze in SyriaByzantine chapel near BanakfurDehes, East Church. Portal in South wallSyriac inscription from baptistery of DehesBashmishliBamukka, GraveBamukka, church and baptisteryHorse with saddle, Amuq Valley, Cüdeyde TellBaqirha, Baptistery of the West ChurchBaqirha 2020

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Nabābil
  • geo:36.20203,36.560665
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • 4xx / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=69635

Annotations

The church at Bettir was a three-aisled, wide arcaded basilica. in front of the west entrance was distyle porch, with spirally fluted columns. To the south of the east end is a small plain baptistery connected with the church by the wall.

Sources:

  1. Howard Crosby Butler: Early Churches in Syria. Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1929, p. 141-142
  2. H. C. Butler eds. Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition to Syria in 1899 - 1900 (Band 2): Architecture and other arts — New York, 1903
  3. Christine Strube: Baudekoration im Nordsyrischen Kalksteinmassiv. Bd. I. Kapitell-, Tür- und Gesimsformen der Kirchen des 4. und 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1993, pp. 116–121

Nearby

Bettir

Roman and Early Byzantine village.

Kfer in Jebel il A`la (1 km)

Early Byzantine chapel. al-Kfeir.

Khirbet Hasan [Khirbit Hasan] (2 km)

Byzantine village.


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