ENPages That Mention Dâr Kitā
Butler Notes: Islamic Architecture in Central and Northern Syria
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We returned to this mountain to revisit the ruined town in its northern end discovered by the Am. Exped. All the deserted towns north of Burdj Baḳirhā were visited again for a more detailed study.
The camp was pitched at Dâr Kîtā; from there we made trips to Bābisḳā, Ksêdjbeh, Bāḳirhā, Khirbit Tēzîn, Khirbit il-Khaṭîb, and Kasr Iblîsū.
At Dâr Kîtā, F.A.R. surveyed the town, and I measured almost every building of which there are walls standing.
At Bābisḳā, F.A.R. made a rough survey and I measured the bath and the buildings about it, including the bazarrs of Khaus to the East.
At Ksêdjbeh, I measured the buildings on the cloister of the E. Church and measured the church itself. In Bābisḳā a new insc. was found.
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[Architectural details from buildings at Babiska and Dâr Ḳîtā.]
Babiska Anc. pagan insc. in Ch. A.A.E. 64 Date 143 A.D.
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Dâr Ḳîtā
Profile for squeeze. Ht of portal 2.30
Insc. A.A.E 57 Date 418 A.D.
Polygonal walls = 1.00-1.10m thick
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In our exhaustive study of this town many interesting buildings beside the three churches were found, chiefly private houses of different epochs and of varying states of ruin, and a number of new inscriptions were discovered, some of them dated.
The very interesting group of buildings in the N.E. angle of the ruins has two dated lintels of the first half of the IV century. The maze of buildings is badly ruined, and was constructed largely of crude polygonal work. The inscriptions refer to the purchase of land and the building of an agora. The only building of sufficient importance to have stood upon a formal agora is a building west of the insc. the only building with columns in the town except the churches. Further south is a long line of square piers, facing a more or less open space.
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[Plan, church of St. Sergius. Dar Kitā.]
Ch House
Insc. 263 ... 264 Bought 339-40 July Built 350 July 354
