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ROMAN PERIOD
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free or engaged columns in its ruins, but fragments of pilasters and quarter-columns
like those at ‘Atil are in abundance. Besides these there are large pieces of the
entablature. Two fragments of an inscription 1
were found among these remains, but neither
of them gives a date. The best-preserved
portion of the structure is found at the right
side of the right-hand portal (outsidc) ; here
we have two sections of a panel which formed
the jarnb, a grooved quarter-column adjoining
it, and a fragment of another panel which formed
the outermost decoration on the right side of
the portal. The first panel was decorated with
a grape-vine pattern, the outer panel with an
acanthus rinceau. The two panels and the
quarter-column between them are raised upon
a plain dado with a simple molding at the top,
the surface of which is broken up to follow the
plan of the features above it. Upon the plain surface below the jamb panel is one of
the inscriptions. 2 The outer faces of the two piers between the central and side
openings of the gateway simply repeated the decoration of this outer right-hand pier.
There were two pilasters in the middle, flanked on either side by a quarter-column
and a panel upon the jambs of the portals. The doorways were arched ; the moldings
of the archivolts sprang from caps at the top of the jamb panels. There are fragments
of two kinds of architraves, and it is probable that these belonged to the two differ-
ent faces of the gateway. The difference between the two kinds is not great: both
have a narrow band at the bottom, then a broad band adorned with meanders, figures,
and masks, and above this a molding composed
of a bead, an egg and dart, and a cavetto carved
with trefoil pattern; but one set of fragments
has an inscription in monumental letters upon
its lowest band (see photograph of fragment
No. i), while the other has a molding com-
posed of a continuous row of small eggs be-
tween the lower band and the meander, and
the same sort of molding inserted in place of
the bead and reel above the meander. The
architrave pieces, with the inscriptions upon
them, would certainly seem to have belonged
above the central opening, while the other piece (see fragment No. 2) which lies next
2 Part III, insc. 431.
Right side oi northernmost portal of gatenay at bi‘,
looking east.
1 Part III, insc. 432.
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free or engaged columns in its ruins, but fragments of pilasters and quarter-columns
like those at ‘Atil are in abundance. Besides these there are large pieces of the
entablature. Two fragments of an inscription 1
were found among these remains, but neither
of them gives a date. The best-preserved
portion of the structure is found at the right
side of the right-hand portal (outsidc) ; here
we have two sections of a panel which formed
the jarnb, a grooved quarter-column adjoining
it, and a fragment of another panel which formed
the outermost decoration on the right side of
the portal. The first panel was decorated with
a grape-vine pattern, the outer panel with an
acanthus rinceau. The two panels and the
quarter-column between them are raised upon
a plain dado with a simple molding at the top,
the surface of which is broken up to follow the
plan of the features above it. Upon the plain surface below the jamb panel is one of
the inscriptions. 2 The outer faces of the two piers between the central and side
openings of the gateway simply repeated the decoration of this outer right-hand pier.
There were two pilasters in the middle, flanked on either side by a quarter-column
and a panel upon the jambs of the portals. The doorways were arched ; the moldings
of the archivolts sprang from caps at the top of the jamb panels. There are fragments
of two kinds of architraves, and it is probable that these belonged to the two differ-
ent faces of the gateway. The difference between the two kinds is not great: both
have a narrow band at the bottom, then a broad band adorned with meanders, figures,
and masks, and above this a molding composed
of a bead, an egg and dart, and a cavetto carved
with trefoil pattern; but one set of fragments
has an inscription in monumental letters upon
its lowest band (see photograph of fragment
No. i), while the other has a molding com-
posed of a continuous row of small eggs be-
tween the lower band and the meander, and
the same sort of molding inserted in place of
the bead and reel above the meander. The
architrave pieces, with the inscriptions upon
them, would certainly seem to have belonged
above the central opening, while the other piece (see fragment No. 2) which lies next
2 Part III, insc. 431.
Right side oi northernmost portal of gatenay at bi‘,
looking east.
1 Part III, insc. 432.