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IL A. 2. — Southern Hauran
114
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Ill. 91.
transverse arches; the semi-circle of the apse is wider than the chancel-arch, and the
curve of the apse is concealed on the outside by rectangular walls. This much of the
building, its walls and its arches, were constructed in highly finished stonework ·, but
along the north wall of the church stands a long narrow addition in a poorer quality
5ABHAH-
CHVRCH·
We have here
basilicas, of equal size, side by side (Ill. 92).
southern church appears to have been erected
It has a rectangular presbyterium with narrow
chambers. Its longitudinal system of piers and
of masonry. The addition provides a square chamber connecting
with the apse and opening out of doors, and a narrow room ex-
tending as far as the west wall of the nave. Directly below the
east wall of the church is a large cistern built in an excellent
quality of masonry. It was spanned by four arches, and a flight
of steps descended to its bottom from the southeast angle. The
steps were reached through a narrow doorway ·, the transverse
arch beside the steps was narrower than the others, and a second
arch spanned the stair. The
whole cistern was covered with
slabs. The end of a water con¬
duit protrudes through the wall
in the northeast angle of the
cistern ; this may be the end of
a long underground aqueduct.
Double Church. North¬
east of the ruins, less than a
hundred paces beyond the outer¬
most houses, are the remains of
a double church with an atrium
and other buildings west of it.
The churches are of medium
dimensions, but the extent of the ecclesiastical buildings
connected with them is not sufficient to warrant the
assumption that this was a monastery.
two
The
first.
side
arches has been destroyed, and all these parts have
been carried away save the caps and bases of a few
piers (Ill. 92). The outer walls are intact. The side
aisles were roofed with stone slabs; the middle aisle
must have been covered with a wooden roof. North
of this church a building of nearly equal width was
added by the erection of a north wall and east and
west walls. The north wall is intact; there is a corbel course at the top of this wall
and on the north side of the wall of the other church. Piers at the east end, spaced
for arches, and responds at the west end show that this church was roofed in the same
manner as the other; but the two piers at the east end are free standing, and there
are no walls to separate a presbyterium from its side chambers. This is the only example
of this treatment of the east end of a basilica that I have seen in Southern Syria.
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114
•80
-.T;
Ill. 91.
transverse arches; the semi-circle of the apse is wider than the chancel-arch, and the
curve of the apse is concealed on the outside by rectangular walls. This much of the
building, its walls and its arches, were constructed in highly finished stonework ·, but
along the north wall of the church stands a long narrow addition in a poorer quality
5ABHAH-
CHVRCH·
We have here
basilicas, of equal size, side by side (Ill. 92).
southern church appears to have been erected
It has a rectangular presbyterium with narrow
chambers. Its longitudinal system of piers and
of masonry. The addition provides a square chamber connecting
with the apse and opening out of doors, and a narrow room ex-
tending as far as the west wall of the nave. Directly below the
east wall of the church is a large cistern built in an excellent
quality of masonry. It was spanned by four arches, and a flight
of steps descended to its bottom from the southeast angle. The
steps were reached through a narrow doorway ·, the transverse
arch beside the steps was narrower than the others, and a second
arch spanned the stair. The
whole cistern was covered with
slabs. The end of a water con¬
duit protrudes through the wall
in the northeast angle of the
cistern ; this may be the end of
a long underground aqueduct.
Double Church. North¬
east of the ruins, less than a
hundred paces beyond the outer¬
most houses, are the remains of
a double church with an atrium
and other buildings west of it.
The churches are of medium
dimensions, but the extent of the ecclesiastical buildings
connected with them is not sufficient to warrant the
assumption that this was a monastery.
two
The
first.
side
arches has been destroyed, and all these parts have
been carried away save the caps and bases of a few
piers (Ill. 92). The outer walls are intact. The side
aisles were roofed with stone slabs; the middle aisle
must have been covered with a wooden roof. North
of this church a building of nearly equal width was
added by the erection of a north wall and east and
west walls. The north wall is intact; there is a corbel course at the top of this wall
and on the north side of the wall of the other church. Piers at the east end, spaced
for arches, and responds at the west end show that this church was roofed in the same
manner as the other; but the two piers at the east end are free standing, and there
are no walls to separate a presbyterium from its side chambers. This is the only example
of this treatment of the east end of a basilica that I have seen in Southern Syria.
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I <0.£>O-r—
CISTERN·’