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CHURCHES
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occasionally found with a set of incised moldings about it. A hood molding is often
employed above portals of churches or other large buildings, and various new forms of
lintel decoration appear. Window openings are almost invariably devoid of moldings.
CHURCHES
/rT AHERE are three large dated churches of the fifth century in the foot-hills at the
northern end of the Djebel Rarisha—one at Babiska, one at Ksedjbeh, and one at
Dar Kita. All three belong to the first twenty years of the century, and all are built
upon practically the same model. Each is situated in a deserted ruin of considerable
size in which there are other churches, and all have reached about the same degree of
dilapidation. The interior colonnades with their superstructure, and the semi-dome of
the apse, have fallen in each case.
Babiska. east church, 401 a.d. Of the East Church of Babiska only
the lower portions of the apse and the lower story of the unbroken west wall are
standing. But from the debris within the nave we may study the interior orna-
ment, and from the fallen lintels of the
south side we derive not only a notion of
the exterior decoration, but from an inscrip-
tion 1 upon one of them we learn the date
of the church, 401 a.d. The plan is of the
usual basilical type, presenting no new
features on the outside except at the east
end, where a segment of the curve of the
apse is permitted to show between the
walls of the side chambers. The rectan-
gular portion of the church is 19.95 m.
long and 14.90 m. wide, inside measure-
ment, or 36 by 27 cubits, giving the pro-
portion of 4:3, instead of 3 : 2 as in the
older churches. The central nave is 8.40 m.
broad on centers, and the intercolumnia-
tions of the arcade are equal to one third
of this width, or 2.80 m. There were seven arches, then, on either side, as compared
with the usual nine of the fourth-century churches. It will thus be seen that, though
1 Part III, insc. 67.
Fig. 49. Plan of East Church at Babiska.
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occasionally found with a set of incised moldings about it. A hood molding is often
employed above portals of churches or other large buildings, and various new forms of
lintel decoration appear. Window openings are almost invariably devoid of moldings.
CHURCHES
/rT AHERE are three large dated churches of the fifth century in the foot-hills at the
northern end of the Djebel Rarisha—one at Babiska, one at Ksedjbeh, and one at
Dar Kita. All three belong to the first twenty years of the century, and all are built
upon practically the same model. Each is situated in a deserted ruin of considerable
size in which there are other churches, and all have reached about the same degree of
dilapidation. The interior colonnades with their superstructure, and the semi-dome of
the apse, have fallen in each case.
Babiska. east church, 401 a.d. Of the East Church of Babiska only
the lower portions of the apse and the lower story of the unbroken west wall are
standing. But from the debris within the nave we may study the interior orna-
ment, and from the fallen lintels of the
south side we derive not only a notion of
the exterior decoration, but from an inscrip-
tion 1 upon one of them we learn the date
of the church, 401 a.d. The plan is of the
usual basilical type, presenting no new
features on the outside except at the east
end, where a segment of the curve of the
apse is permitted to show between the
walls of the side chambers. The rectan-
gular portion of the church is 19.95 m.
long and 14.90 m. wide, inside measure-
ment, or 36 by 27 cubits, giving the pro-
portion of 4:3, instead of 3 : 2 as in the
older churches. The central nave is 8.40 m.
broad on centers, and the intercolumnia-
tions of the arcade are equal to one third
of this width, or 2.80 m. There were seven arches, then, on either side, as compared
with the usual nine of the fourth-century churches. It will thus be seen that, though
1 Part III, insc. 67.
Fig. 49. Plan of East Church at Babiska.