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three sides of the inner chamber and a narthex on the fourth side (Ill. 1). The outer
cella had but one entrance, the inner chamber three, giving upon the narthex. The
inner chamber was provided with four interior columns standing at the angles of a
square, and probably providing for an hypaethral opening. All the other Nabataean
temples that have been found since Μ. de Vogué made his discoveries follow one
or the other of these plans more or less closely. The plan of the Temple at Sahr7
(Ill. 2) is nothing less than a reduced copy of the larger temple at Si though there
is but one portal in the inner cella. The Temple of Dushara8 at Si (Ill. 1) shows the
inner and the outer cella and a distyle porch, but no chambers flanking it. The
Nabataean temple at Umm idj-Djimâl9 (Ill. 3) had a distyle porch and three por*
» Christian·
Ill. 5. Plan of Serâya at Kanawât.
tals but no inner cella so far as is known. The scanty remains of a Nabataean
temple at Dêr il-Meshkûk10 show a distyle porch. The temple at Sûr11 (Ill. 4) has four
columns forming a square within a square cella; but the cella itself is single and
probably had but one entrance, this temple, however, may have been peripteral
originally. In this connection it is interesting to observe that the great building at
Arâk il-Emîr, which I believe was a temple12, a building of the second century B. C.,
and of decidedly Asiatic character, has distyle porches between chambers at both
ends, and probably had also an inner cella.
But there is another temple, a temple also first observed by Μ. de Vogüé, though
not recognized by him as a Nabataean building, which is almost certainly of Naba-
taean origin, but which has been altered so much and so many times that its original
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cella had but one entrance, the inner chamber three, giving upon the narthex. The
inner chamber was provided with four interior columns standing at the angles of a
square, and probably providing for an hypaethral opening. All the other Nabataean
temples that have been found since Μ. de Vogué made his discoveries follow one
or the other of these plans more or less closely. The plan of the Temple at Sahr7
(Ill. 2) is nothing less than a reduced copy of the larger temple at Si though there
is but one portal in the inner cella. The Temple of Dushara8 at Si (Ill. 1) shows the
inner and the outer cella and a distyle porch, but no chambers flanking it. The
Nabataean temple at Umm idj-Djimâl9 (Ill. 3) had a distyle porch and three por*
» Christian·
Ill. 5. Plan of Serâya at Kanawât.
tals but no inner cella so far as is known. The scanty remains of a Nabataean
temple at Dêr il-Meshkûk10 show a distyle porch. The temple at Sûr11 (Ill. 4) has four
columns forming a square within a square cella; but the cella itself is single and
probably had but one entrance, this temple, however, may have been peripteral
originally. In this connection it is interesting to observe that the great building at
Arâk il-Emîr, which I believe was a temple12, a building of the second century B. C.,
and of decidedly Asiatic character, has distyle porches between chambers at both
ends, and probably had also an inner cella.
But there is another temple, a temple also first observed by Μ. de Vogüé, though
not recognized by him as a Nabataean building, which is almost certainly of Naba-
taean origin, but which has been altered so much and so many times that its original
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