And in this year, which is the year fourteen hundred and twenty-six of
the Greeks (A.D. 1115), on the twenty-ninth day of the month of the latter
teshrin (November), which is the twenty-ninth day of the sixth month of
the Arabs,
a terribly violent earthquake took place, and the whole city of
Mar'ash sunk underground and became the tomb of the inhabitants thereof.
And very many houses fell down in Samosata. Constantine, the lord of
Gargar, was present in the town, and he, together with many others, was
suffocated in the ruins. And there fell down thirteen towers of the wall of
Edessa; and portions of the wall of Harran; and a hundred houses and one-half of the Citadel of Balash; and two churches of Khishum, viz. the church
of Mar John, and the church of the Forty Martyrs. And through the care
and solicitude of Dionysius, its bishop, they (i.e. the churches) were
rebuilt.
