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EXCAVATIONS ON SEVERAL SITES—BUDIITJM. 323
foundations died away in the native rock, which
here crops up to the surface. The wall, which, as
has already been noticed, forms part of the eastern
side of the monastery, is of good isodomous
masonry. Its surface is roughly tooled, showing
that it was an external, or peribolus wall. On
examining the south-west corner of the Byzantine
monastery, I discovered an angle of similar
masonry. (See the Plan.)
The form of the building which occupied this
part of the platform must have been oblong, and
its measurement must have been 164' from east to
west, and 124' from north to south. In a cowhouse
near the south-western angle is a piece of pavement
composed of three large blocks. The whole length
is 7' 10". One of the blocks measured 2' 5" by 2',
by 8" in thickness. The other was considerably
thicker.
Whether this pavement continues under the
south wall of the cowhouse could not be ascer-
tained. Under these blocks I found the original
rocky soil of the field.
In a garden below the south wall of the monas-
tery is a well (see the Plan), from which I obtained
the inscription (Plate LXXXVIII. No. 12), which
consists of two fragments of a white marble slab.
The mention of Gymnasiarchs in this inscription
makes it not unlikely that the ancient building,
situated so near the well, was a Gymnasium, pro-
bably the one mentioned in an inscription (Ap-
pendix, No. 2) as having been built by one of the
Ptolemies. In the northern wall of the Byzantine
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foundations died away in the native rock, which
here crops up to the surface. The wall, which, as
has already been noticed, forms part of the eastern
side of the monastery, is of good isodomous
masonry. Its surface is roughly tooled, showing
that it was an external, or peribolus wall. On
examining the south-west corner of the Byzantine
monastery, I discovered an angle of similar
masonry. (See the Plan.)
The form of the building which occupied this
part of the platform must have been oblong, and
its measurement must have been 164' from east to
west, and 124' from north to south. In a cowhouse
near the south-western angle is a piece of pavement
composed of three large blocks. The whole length
is 7' 10". One of the blocks measured 2' 5" by 2',
by 8" in thickness. The other was considerably
thicker.
Whether this pavement continues under the
south wall of the cowhouse could not be ascer-
tained. Under these blocks I found the original
rocky soil of the field.
In a garden below the south wall of the monas-
tery is a well (see the Plan), from which I obtained
the inscription (Plate LXXXVIII. No. 12), which
consists of two fragments of a white marble slab.
The mention of Gymnasiarchs in this inscription
makes it not unlikely that the ancient building,
situated so near the well, was a Gymnasium, pro-
bably the one mentioned in an inscription (Ap-
pendix, No. 2) as having been built by one of the
Ptolemies. In the northern wall of the Byzantine
T 2