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Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria I, 1899
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Church_Khirbet Tezîn
Date 584 A.D.
This date is corrected from the Sea of Antioch 49 B.C.
Scale .50cm = 1m.
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Khirbet Tezîn November 4, 1899
This town is one of the northernmost of the Djebel Berîsha. It is situated on the southern slope of one of the highest foothills at the extremity of the range.
Little is left of the town but the church, which is well preserved. The houses, most of which were in plain quadrated style, have fallen completely to ruin.
Church 584 A.D. The church was of simple plan but of fair dimentions. Most of the outer walls are standing and the arch of the apse is still in place, a door to the north and one to the south * still exist with richly decorated lintels and the west front, * with its fine portal and four round topped windows, is almost intact. The cornice of the west portal is decorated with a fine design of conventional foliage ornament.
1st date. The uppermost member bears an inscription giving the date ^ 584 A.D. (W.K.P. no.10)^ of the building of the church* Over the windows is the ordinary looped moulding.
*see photos
Butler: Umm idj-Djimal, Nawa, it-Tuba, Wasr ibn-Wardan, 1904-1905
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il-Andarîn (20) This site is a ruin of vast extent - over a mile square - but few of its ancient buildings are standing. The whole city, with the exception of its churches, the barracks and a few public buildings was built of sundried bricks, basalt being used for jambs, lintels columns and architraves and other details; and for this reason the plain is covered with a network of low mounds which mark the lines of the walls of houses and other buildings.
A stout wall of masonry seems to have surrounded a smaller and earlier city. This is to be traced in foundation courses on all sides, but the present ruins and some of the churches extend far beyond the border of this wall. Numberless cisterns and a great birkeh were found. Streets are plainly traced between the mounds with many doorways still in place opening upon them. A great necropolis was found to the East of the city. Dated inscriptions ranging from 507 A.D. to 584 A.D. show that the city flourished in the sixth century.
