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Church of Numerianos
[building plan with measurements, Church of Numerianos, Umm idj-Djimâl]
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Church of the Imperial Inscription 557 A.D. This church stands quite by itself in the open space, to the N.E. of the Praetorium. Is is a simple basilica with a sacristy built out from the N. wall, adjoining the prothesis, and a small court enclosed by a wall on the South. The aisles are divided from the central nave by four arches carried on square piers. The narthex was formed by projecting sidewalls of the church and columns. The West wall seems to have been reinforced by a double thickness added after the original building of the church. The date was inscribed upon one of the pier caps of the apse arch. In the inner or original wall, the S.W. doorway has a large lintel stone which I believe was taken from some part of the praetorium; it bears an inscription of the Emperors Valentinian, Valens and Gratian and records the building of a burgos. This lintel may have been that of the main gateway of the enclosure of the praetorium. The church is built entirely of roughly quadrated blocks. Central nave roofed with wood, side aisles with stone.
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[plan, Church of Imperial Inscription, Umm idj-Djimâl]
[Detail of inscription at left] ETS✟YNA Date 557 A.D.
Church of Imperial Inscr.
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Praetorium. This is unquestionably the earliest of the preserved buildings at Umm idj-Djimâl, excepting only the Roman Gate. It is a combination of the vaulted cruciform praetorium of Mismiyeh and a Roman atrium of 4 columns, with several chambers, large and small, built in Haurân style.
The combined structure was large and commodeous and handsomely built of finished blocks. The chief entrance was in the middle of the S. side; it opened into the atrium from which there was access to the cruciform apartment on the E., to the great arched hall on the W, and to three of the smaller arched chambers in the north. The cruciform apartment was covered with three formal vaults with a dome (probably) at their intersection, the atrium was open to the sky between the columns and roofed with wood all around the opening, the great arched hall was roofed with wood, and all the other chambers were covered with arches and stone slabs in the style of the Haurân. The great arched apartment to the West rose one
