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ARCHITECTURE OF THE FOURTH CENTURY
is such as has just been described. The preserved portions are the north wall in
completeness, the apse arch with the lower courses of the semi-dome, the two portals
of the south side, and portions of the south and west walls. The colonnade, which
ran along the south side, is completely ruined. There is no better example of the
survival of classic details than in the ornament of the two portals, which have mono-
lithic jambs and are framed in moldings of good classic profile. Above the lintel
moldings is a cornice composed of a broad cyma recta below a row of widely
Chapel at Ishruk, from courtyard on south side.
spaced dentils and finished above with a cavetto cymatium. The interior ornament
consists in the Corinthian pilaster-caps on either side of the apse, the moldings
of the apse arch, and the impost molding below the springing of the semi-dome.
The windows, which appear only in the upper part of the north wall, are five in
number. They are square-topped and devoid of moldings. Though the symbols of
religion are not in evidence, the general character of this edifice would lead to the
presumption that it was a church, and the ruins of the town show that the commu-
nity was a small one, not large enough to have required a public building of any
other sort. Its architectural style would assign it to a period somewhat later than
the church at Bankusa, yet the adherence to classic models seen in the moldings,
the absence of Christian symbols, and the rectangular form of the windows, when
compared with examples which are known to belong to the latter half of the century,
would seem to indicate, in this case, a somewhat earlier date.
To this same class and to approximately the same date belong the chapels of
Ma'ramaya and Nuriyeh. The former town consists of a small group of ruins, com-
prising possibly a small convent and a dozen or more preserved houses of good size,
ARCHITECTURE OF THE FOURTH CENTURY
is such as has just been described. The preserved portions are the north wall in
completeness, the apse arch with the lower courses of the semi-dome, the two portals
of the south side, and portions of the south and west walls. The colonnade, which
ran along the south side, is completely ruined. There is no better example of the
survival of classic details than in the ornament of the two portals, which have mono-
lithic jambs and are framed in moldings of good classic profile. Above the lintel
moldings is a cornice composed of a broad cyma recta below a row of widely
Chapel at Ishruk, from courtyard on south side.
spaced dentils and finished above with a cavetto cymatium. The interior ornament
consists in the Corinthian pilaster-caps on either side of the apse, the moldings
of the apse arch, and the impost molding below the springing of the semi-dome.
The windows, which appear only in the upper part of the north wall, are five in
number. They are square-topped and devoid of moldings. Though the symbols of
religion are not in evidence, the general character of this edifice would lead to the
presumption that it was a church, and the ruins of the town show that the commu-
nity was a small one, not large enough to have required a public building of any
other sort. Its architectural style would assign it to a period somewhat later than
the church at Bankusa, yet the adherence to classic models seen in the moldings,
the absence of Christian symbols, and the rectangular form of the windows, when
compared with examples which are known to belong to the latter half of the century,
would seem to indicate, in this case, a somewhat earlier date.
To this same class and to approximately the same date belong the chapels of
Ma'ramaya and Nuriyeh. The former town consists of a small group of ruins, com-
prising possibly a small convent and a dozen or more preserved houses of good size,