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ARCHITECTURE OE THE SIXTH CENTURY
Each chapcl has a stone ceiling, with a chamber above it beneath the aisle roof. The
chapels have each three doorways, one leading into the nave, one into the aisle, and
one opening out of doors. At the opposite end of the aisle are large chambers on
either side of the narthex, beneath the western towers. The aisle walls extend up to
the clearstory level, and are provided at the top with bracket moldings which support
the outer ends of the long blocks of stone which form the aisle roof, and which find
their other support in another bracket molding upon the wall of the nave above the
arches. Thc roofing slabs are locked together at the edges by an S joint, as may be
seen in the photograph, an expedient of construction that we have not met with before
Interior of church at Kalb Lauzeh, looking southeast.
in these regions. The roof of the nave was of tinrbers, the ends of which rested upon
two superposed corbels supported by colonnettes. All of the windows, except those of
the apse, are rectangular. Beneath the easternmost window of the clearstory, on either
side, near the chancel arch, is a rectangular opening 1 connecting with the chambers
over the prothesis ancl diaconicum ; bclow the openings are large brackets for the sup-
port of small balconies, which may have been ambones for the reading of the Gospel
and the Epistle. A marble fragment was found outside the church, built into the walls
of a modern house ; it bore on one side a Syriac inscription, 2 giving the name of
1 This detail is not shown in M. de Vogiie’s longitudinal section (Pl. 122), but is shown in Pl. 126.
3 Part IV, Syr. insc. 1.
ARCHITECTURE OE THE SIXTH CENTURY
Each chapcl has a stone ceiling, with a chamber above it beneath the aisle roof. The
chapels have each three doorways, one leading into the nave, one into the aisle, and
one opening out of doors. At the opposite end of the aisle are large chambers on
either side of the narthex, beneath the western towers. The aisle walls extend up to
the clearstory level, and are provided at the top with bracket moldings which support
the outer ends of the long blocks of stone which form the aisle roof, and which find
their other support in another bracket molding upon the wall of the nave above the
arches. Thc roofing slabs are locked together at the edges by an S joint, as may be
seen in the photograph, an expedient of construction that we have not met with before
Interior of church at Kalb Lauzeh, looking southeast.
in these regions. The roof of the nave was of tinrbers, the ends of which rested upon
two superposed corbels supported by colonnettes. All of the windows, except those of
the apse, are rectangular. Beneath the easternmost window of the clearstory, on either
side, near the chancel arch, is a rectangular opening 1 connecting with the chambers
over the prothesis ancl diaconicum ; bclow the openings are large brackets for the sup-
port of small balconies, which may have been ambones for the reading of the Gospel
and the Epistle. A marble fragment was found outside the church, built into the walls
of a modern house ; it bore on one side a Syriac inscription, 2 giving the name of
1 This detail is not shown in M. de Vogiie’s longitudinal section (Pl. 122), but is shown in Pl. 126.
3 Part IV, Syr. insc. 1.