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ARCHITECTURE OF THE SIXTH CENTURY
story windows, which have now disappeared. The south side is as interesting as the
fa$ade ; its doorway is a reduced copy of the great west portal. The string-course of
the fa$ade is brought around to adorn the three windows on the west of the portal; it
then mounts to the top of the lintel and forms a flat curve above a small relieving-arch.
The artist then, instead of drawing it back to its own level at the other end of the
lintel, sees fit to relieve the monotony of the flat wall space between the portal and
the next window by making it describe a double elbow before it reaches the next
opening. The interior ornament is quite simple; the chancel arch and the arch of the
south chapel are both deeply molded, as are the caps from which they spring.
South wall of church at Khirbit Tezin.
Kefr Kila. church. With this last edifice should be classed the church of Kefr
Kila, one of the churches published by M. de Vogiie. 1 It is much more ruinous
to-day than when M. de Vogiie made his drawings, and the little of it that is left is
inhabited by a family of Druses; but from the sketch in Plate 121 of “ La Syrie Cen-
trale ” one may see the style and application of the moldings, while from the detail
drawing a resemblance may be noticed in the carving of the ovolo molding to that at
Khirbit Tezin. The molding is smaller, however, and is surmounted by a high
cavetto ornamented with upright acanthus leaves, while at the side of the lintel
appears an acanthus-leaf modillion.
BAbiska. church of st. SERCxius, 609/10 a.d. The latest of the dated churches, the
latest, indeed, of all the dated ancient buildings that we found in Northern Syria, is the
‘ La Syrie Centrale, Pl. 121.
ARCHITECTURE OF THE SIXTH CENTURY
story windows, which have now disappeared. The south side is as interesting as the
fa$ade ; its doorway is a reduced copy of the great west portal. The string-course of
the fa$ade is brought around to adorn the three windows on the west of the portal; it
then mounts to the top of the lintel and forms a flat curve above a small relieving-arch.
The artist then, instead of drawing it back to its own level at the other end of the
lintel, sees fit to relieve the monotony of the flat wall space between the portal and
the next window by making it describe a double elbow before it reaches the next
opening. The interior ornament is quite simple; the chancel arch and the arch of the
south chapel are both deeply molded, as are the caps from which they spring.
South wall of church at Khirbit Tezin.
Kefr Kila. church. With this last edifice should be classed the church of Kefr
Kila, one of the churches published by M. de Vogiie. 1 It is much more ruinous
to-day than when M. de Vogiie made his drawings, and the little of it that is left is
inhabited by a family of Druses; but from the sketch in Plate 121 of “ La Syrie Cen-
trale ” one may see the style and application of the moldings, while from the detail
drawing a resemblance may be noticed in the carving of the ovolo molding to that at
Khirbit Tezin. The molding is smaller, however, and is surmounted by a high
cavetto ornamented with upright acanthus leaves, while at the side of the lintel
appears an acanthus-leaf modillion.
BAbiska. church of st. SERCxius, 609/10 a.d. The latest of the dated churches, the
latest, indeed, of all the dated ancient buildings that we found in Northern Syria, is the
‘ La Syrie Centrale, Pl. 121.