Butler, Howard Crosby: Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition to Syria in 1899 - 1900 (Band 2): Architecture and other arts (New York, 1903)

MONUMENTS OF CLASSIC STYLE

Fig. 26. Plan 1 and restoration of house at Benabil.

colonnade, upon which two doorways open in the lower story, ancl two doorways and
several windows in the uppcr story. The end walls of the house are surmounted by

gables which show the disposition of the roof; but the pro-
jections of the end walls show that there was an angle
between the roof of the main building and that of the colon-
nade. The details of the ornament of this house are worthy
of special mention and will serve as an aid in dating the
structure. The colonnades are of first importance. In the

lower story a characteristic treatment
of Roman Ionic is employed. The
capital is very flat, the volutes are
small, and the small section of the
echinus which appears is carved with
the egg and dart. Above these col-
umns is a simple Ionic architrave
of two faces, with a cymatium at the
top. The order of the upper story is
Corinthian of a pure classic type, as
may be seen in an engaged three-quarter column which stood at the west end of the
colonnade. The capital and the base are similar to those of the Corinthian columns
of the early dated
monuments of the
region. The upper
and lower doorways
which are shown in
the photograph on
page 69 are another
index of the period ;
the lower opening is
flanked by pilasters
with simple mold-
ings; the lintel repre-
sents a section of en-
tablature with banded
architrave, frieze,
and dentil moldings,

surmounted by a ,, „ , „ ,, „ „ »,..

cornice supported by

well-executed modillions. The upper doorway is molded all round, in the same style

'This plan, like all plans published herewith when not otherwise specified, is drawn to the scale of .0025 m.;

the restoration, .0050 m.