Butler, Howard Crosby; Princeton University [Editor]: Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 2, Sect. A ; 1): Ammonitis (1907)

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consisted of an outer west wall with five entrances in it, an inner wall, or proscenium,
connected with the outer wall by a tunnel vault, two massive towrers which formed the
parascenia, and a small cavea divided by a single praecinctio. Of these parts, the
first, or western wall, with three of its portals is standing to the height of one story;
the doorways on the ends have fallen with the collapse of the angles, leaving one jamb


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of each with the springers of the relieving arches above them; the inner wall is partly
preserved, and portions of the vaulting of the passage between the two walls are still
in place; the southern tower is intact in two stories, and its west wall rises to a height
of about 15 meters, but the opposite tower is a heap of ruins. The exterior curve of
the cavea may still be traced at certain points; but the interior is filled with a mass
of debris caused by the collapse of the northern tower and the high wall of the scaena,
both of which fell inward. The ruin must have long served as a quarry; for almost