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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PAGAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE DJEBEL HAURAN

of the cavetto and the absence of true classic elements are equally prominent. Here
again each molding is adorned with a carved pattern of its own, all of which are dif-
ferent from the designs of the lintel described above, although two of them are of the
upright foliate pattern, a little suggestive, perhaps, of anthemions. Two of the mold-
ings, the cable molding and the geometrical design next to it, are reminiscent of the
portal at Suweda. This fragment is approximately datable, being the inscribed
lintel of the time of Agrippa II. The jambs and lintel of the second gate (see
photograph on page 318) present profiles exactly similar to the above. Two of the
moldings are carved like those of the Agrippa lintel, while two of the others present
a variation of ornament. In place of the triple band with its inscription, we have here
a flat face ornamented with a very primitive running-vine pattern. There is enough
in common among these three sets of moldings to warrant our assigning them
to the same general epoch, the epoch indicated by the inscription upon one of them,
i.e., the time of the Agrippas.