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

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ARCHITECTURE OF THE FIFTH CENTURY

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angle-caps of richly wrought Corinthian pattern, one of which is ornamented at the
side with a large symbolical disk. The base of the angle pier is provided with good

moldings. The broad
arch, opening into the
diaconicum, consists of
eleven voussoirs. The
archivolt, on the side
toward the nave, is
adorned with a rich set
of moldings and orna-
mental bands, which
recall those of the por-
tals of Dar Kita and
Ksedjbeh. Here are
the bead - and - reel
molding, the band of
bay leaves, and the
cyma recta with its

Exterior of apse, chapel at Kfer. ,1 • 1

F ’ 1 anthennons and acan-

thus ornament; but the outermost member is different, consisting of blunt cusps, like
those of the baptistery portal at Babiska, all around the arch moldings. This arch
springs from caps of the Corinthian order, fairly classic in design. The two south por-
tals are reminiscent of portals that have been already described in this chapter; the
larger, that to the east, being framed
in deep moldings, like the western
doorways in the south walls of the
church at Dar Kita and the church
at Ksedjbeh, while the other, with
its molded jambs and lintel and its
cavetto cornice, closely resembles
the doorways of the baptistery of
Dar Kita.

Arch in soutli vvall of chapel at Kfer, leading into the diaconicum.

Srir. chapel. Another church
with undivided nave, of somewhat
different plan from the foregoing,
but to all appearances belonging
to the same period, a little later in
the century, perhaps, is that at Srir,
near the ruined town of Serdjibleh,
 
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