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

CHURCHES

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verse arches, each set consisting of a broad arch above the middle aisle, a low narrow
arch over either side aisle, and, above this, a still smaller arch, on either side, which

Church at Tafha, from the southeast.

spanned the gallery. The main aisle terminated in an apse,
ellipse with its major axis at right angles
to the longitudinal axis of the church.

Beside the north wall, at its western end,
stands a large tower, nearly a square in
plan, which rises in ruins to almost half
its height above the roof of
I his edihce stands in a remar _
of preservation: all the outer
cepting a portion of the apse ;|_2
all the transverse arches are sti|_
though one of them, that neares§-^
seems to have been rebuilt, i§’°

Saracenic times, for it is slighth=_ .C
and the tower is almost compk§-? O
the roofing slabs have fallen, §" "q
the interior almost to the sprim§ +->
arches. Only one of these slal|_t q
in situ to tell us how the other§- (_)

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ranged. From this we may st= >>

the curve of which

is an

of church at Tafha, shovving a roofing
slab in place.