Princeton Expeditions to Syria (1899, 1904-1905, 1909)

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Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria I, 1899

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District No. I p. 6. Benâbil p. 11. Barrîsh p. 16. Ḳirḳ Bêzā p. 20. Kfêr p. 25. Beḥyō p. 29. Kefr Kîla p. 31. Kalb Lauzi p. 36. Barrîsh (Kefr Kîla) p. 37. Beshindelâya p. 44. Beshindelinti p. 45. Ma'ṣarti

District No. II p. 50 Banaḳfûr p. 56 Bāmuḳḳā p. 61 Bāshakûḥ p. 65 Silfâyā p. 68 Khirbet el-Khaṭîb p. 69 Khirbet Tēzîn p. 70 Ḳaṣr Iblîsū p. 72 Bashmishli [continued in Part II]

Types of Church Plans illustrations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Churches. Plan Supports
Benâbil No. 2 0
Kfêr 2 0
Beḥyō 4 6 cols?
Kefr Kîla ? ?
Ḳalb Lauzi 6 4 piers
Barrish (K.K.) 1 0
Banaḳfûr No. 3 6 cols.
Bāmuḳḳā 3 cols.
Khirbat el-Khaṭîb 3 ?
Khirbet Tĕzîn 3 6 cols
Ḳaṣr Iblîsū 1 0
Bashmishli 3 4 piers
Basilicas Bêḥyō Banaḳfûr
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District II. Djebel Berîsha

November 2, 1899

Bānaḳfûr

On leaving Kalb Lauzi we quitted the Djebel el A'la, crossed the narrow valley and began our work upon the towns of the Djebel Berîsha, making our first camp at Bashmishli the northernmost inhabited village of the mountain range.

En route we stopped at Bānaḳfûr a ruined town about half the way up the mountain, well placed on the western slope with a fine prospect to the N.W.

From this point we saw many of the towns on the opposite Djebel which we had visited and saw one which we had not heard of - This we shall visit before moving southward in the Djebel Barisha

At Bānaḳfûr we found much of interest the church? which de Vogüé noted and ruins of several large buildings and some interesting tombs.

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Bamuḳḳa November 3, 1899

On the second we came to Bashmishli by way of Dêḥes, which will be visited later, and camped near the mohammeden village built among the ancient ruins.

The following day we visited three towns.

Tomb. First, Bamuḳḳa, only ten minutes walk to the N. W. of Bashmishli. On the way we passed a large rock-cut tomb very like the great tomb of Claudius Sosander at Beshindelâya - here however the super structure is preserved in large part.

There is first an open excavated chamber with steps leading down to the facade of the tomb which consists of two Doric columns, 2 pilasters and a moulded architrave all cut from the rock.

There is no insc, but in the centre of the architrave is a well executed wreath. Behind the facade is a large chamber surrounded with arcosolia with

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well moulded arches. All of the sarcophagi are parallel with their arches but two on the north side, which are embraced by a single large arch and are at right angles to it. The inside wall of the portico contains a number of hollows where bronze tablets were fitted.

Of the superstructure only the main portal and the north wall opposite it are preserved. The former is of massive proportions and consists of three pieces - monolithic jamb and a huge moulded entablature or lintel. The wall is of peculiar interest being double faced and laid in a polygonal style as perfect as the best specimens of early Greek polygonal work.

Bamuḳḳa was a small town on a level space at the edge of the mountain side. The fertile gardens are still cultivated by the peasants of Bashmishli but it is uninhabited. The ruins

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Bāshakûḥ November 3, 1899

This ruin is situated on the crest of a hill about fifteen minutes walk W. of Bashmishli It is absolutely deserted and overgrown but a number of its houses are well preserved.

As we approached the town from the east we came upon a group of ruined buildings, two or three connected and three detached. It is impossible to determine the plan from the pile of dilapidated stonework but this group seems to have been a monastery. Adjoining the largest structure, which may have been the church is a square chamber, with ornamented portal sculpture in the walls of which are tombs, arcosolia with broken sarcophagi. One of the small sq. detached buildings has a large single-stone shed projecting over the portal and remains within of tombs and niches. These ruins, so far as we were able to discover, were the only ecclesiastical buildings of Bāshakûḥ

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