This basaltic stone originated from ad-Dayr al-Wasṭāni, a ruined monastery located east of an imaginary line connecting Sabẖat al-ʿUtaybā in the north with al-Hayǧānā in the south. The dimensions of the stone are 70 × 66 × 50 cm, and a Syriac inscription comprised of four lines is seen on one of its faces, the translation of which is as follows:
This door was erected
in the month of August
of the year eight hundred
and eighty seven
Collection of the National Museum of Damascus.
ʿAlī ʾabu ʿAssāf. Kitābāt siryānīyyā ǧadīdā fi al-matḥaf al-waṭanī bidimašq. Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes XXII 1972 (pp. 135-144).
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