ABSTRACT

In his corpus of crusader inscriptions from the Holy Land, published in 1974, the late Fr Sabino de Sandoli, OFM, assembled over 400 inscriptions relating to the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, including lead seals and masonry marks. 1 The geographical coverage of the corpus, however, was restricted to the modern political entities of Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan, thus leaving out the northern part of the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem now lying in southern Lebanon. 2 The present paper attempts to make good that omission by listing all those inscriptions from southern Lebanon that are known to the author. A comprehensive corpus of crusader-period inscriptions from Lebanon and Syria, however, still remains a desideratum.