Butler, Howard Crosby: Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition to Syria in 1899 - 1900 (Band 2): Architecture and other arts (New York, 1903)

412 CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE DJEBEL HAURAN

courses are evenly laid. In comparatively recent times the church was fortified, and at
that time the walls were carried up on al! sides in rough, uneven fashion, so that the

Interior of Church of St. George at Zor £ah, from the southwest.

dome is almost hidden from view except at a distance. At the same time the apse
was loaded with a crude construction that has completely altered the aspect of the eastern

end. The little decoration of’
which the exterior can boast
is placed upon the fagade,
where the main portal is
i, adorned with a lintel bear-

ing a long inscription, 1 and
symbolic disks at either end.
The inscription gives the
date 515 a.d. The lintel is
surmounted by a stilted re-
lieving-arch, wider than the
portal, and finished with a
good molding, consisting of
a narrow band, a fillet, an
ovolo, a cavetto, and a band,
which is carried over the

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Church of St. George at Zor‘ah, from the east.

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