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

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Umm idj-Djimâl

North East Church. This church stands quite by itself in the N.E. quarter of the city. It is a small building of basilical plan with 3 longtitudinal arches on either side of the central nave and a deeply projecting apse without side chambers. A small room adjoins the S. wall at its western half. The interior arches were carved on square piers. The apse arch is still standing. Walls entirely of roughly quadrated work.

North Church. This church is almost a duplicate of the [previous] The only variations being slight differences in dimentions. The small building on the S. is, in this example divided into 2 chambers. Like the other, this church stands by itself and seems to have been for parish uses.

Church Outside East Wall. A hundred metres or more beyond the E. wall of the city, outside the E. gate is a small church, the plan of which is an undivided nave with 2 transverse arches and a deeply projecting apse, the arch of which is still in place. A low building of two rooms was built against the South side. The whole structure is built of rather crudely quadrated masonry, and is probably late. This may have been a memorial chapel.