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ARCHITECTURE OF THE SIXTH CENTURY
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town. It is a rectangular building constructed of massive squared blocks of stone.
It is entered by a small doorway. Within are all the parts of a press, cut in the living
rock. The building is spanned by two transverse arches which support a roof of
large stone slabs. Larger exampleS are
to befound in the Djebel Riha, at il-Barah,
Hass, Midjleyya, and other places.
Il-Barah. press. M. de Vogiie pub-
lished one of those at il-Barah. 1 It was
a commodious structure, 12 m. in length,
spanned by seven transverse arches which
supported its roof of stone slabs. The
photograph shows all that is left of the
building, one end wall and the arch next
to it, with some of the roof slabs in place.
This press contained, besides the ordi-
nary vats and cisterns, a circular table, like a nether millstone, which was probably
part of a mill for crushing olives before they were put into the press.
Hass. press, 372 a.d. We found a large press at Hass, partly underground, but
whether it was originally so or has been buried by thc soil washed from higher levels
I cannot say. Its interior arrangement differed somewhat from that of the example at
il-Barah ; it was divided longitudinally by two rows of three arches each, supported upon
square piers. These arches carried a stone roof like that at il-Barah. An inscrip-
tion 2 near the springing of one of the arches indicates that this was an oil-manufactory
and gives the date 372 a.d. It is probable
that these narrower longitudinal arches are
characteristic of the earlier period, while the
broad transverse arches belong to the later
centuries. There are examples of both
kinds at Hass.
Ktellata. well-house. One of the
most attractive of the smaller monuments of
Northern Syria is the puteal, or well-house,
at Ktellata. The illustration shows how
perfectly it has been preserved and that the
well it has coverecl all these centuries is still
in use. It is a canopy-like structure, with four columns at the angles of a square,
supporting a barrel vault made of long blocks of stone resting upon semicircular pedi-
JLa Syrie Centrale, Pls. 35, 36. 2Part III, insc. 152.
270
town. It is a rectangular building constructed of massive squared blocks of stone.
It is entered by a small doorway. Within are all the parts of a press, cut in the living
rock. The building is spanned by two transverse arches which support a roof of
large stone slabs. Larger exampleS are
to befound in the Djebel Riha, at il-Barah,
Hass, Midjleyya, and other places.
Il-Barah. press. M. de Vogiie pub-
lished one of those at il-Barah. 1 It was
a commodious structure, 12 m. in length,
spanned by seven transverse arches which
supported its roof of stone slabs. The
photograph shows all that is left of the
building, one end wall and the arch next
to it, with some of the roof slabs in place.
This press contained, besides the ordi-
nary vats and cisterns, a circular table, like a nether millstone, which was probably
part of a mill for crushing olives before they were put into the press.
Hass. press, 372 a.d. We found a large press at Hass, partly underground, but
whether it was originally so or has been buried by thc soil washed from higher levels
I cannot say. Its interior arrangement differed somewhat from that of the example at
il-Barah ; it was divided longitudinally by two rows of three arches each, supported upon
square piers. These arches carried a stone roof like that at il-Barah. An inscrip-
tion 2 near the springing of one of the arches indicates that this was an oil-manufactory
and gives the date 372 a.d. It is probable
that these narrower longitudinal arches are
characteristic of the earlier period, while the
broad transverse arches belong to the later
centuries. There are examples of both
kinds at Hass.
Ktellata. well-house. One of the
most attractive of the smaller monuments of
Northern Syria is the puteal, or well-house,
at Ktellata. The illustration shows how
perfectly it has been preserved and that the
well it has coverecl all these centuries is still
in use. It is a canopy-like structure, with four columns at the angles of a square,
supporting a barrel vault made of long blocks of stone resting upon semicircular pedi-
JLa Syrie Centrale, Pls. 35, 36. 2Part III, insc. 152.