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Der il-Kahf
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70. IDJ-DJUBAIYEH.
Southwest of Icnat, well out in the desert, is this small ruin, the only important
feature of which is a tower about 12 m. high. The tower seems to have belonged to
a small church; for an apse is still visible adjoining the tower on the north side.
The group of ruins was probably once a monastery, with its church and tower, and
with a courtyard surrounded by monastic buildings.
71. DER IL-KAHF.
Fortress 306 A.D. Far out in the desert, on the line of an ancient Roman road
and upon a mediaeval caravan route, stand the ruins of an ancient fortress known to
the Arabs by the name of D6r il-Kahf. It is quite certain that the region was not
desert in ancient times; for all the way from Lnat there are remains of ancient walls
that divided fields, and the traces of furrows still remain as evidence of former culti-
vation. These signs of former fertility extend farther to the south and southeast, as
far as the eye can reach. The fortress was built on the usual lines of Roman military
posts in Syria, and is well preserved. The plan (Ill. 127) is a large rectangle, over
60 m. square, with an entrance in the middle of the east wall (Ill. 128). The four
angles are strengthened by square towers of three stories, which break out slightly
from the line of the side walls, and the north and west sides have similar towers mid-
way between the angle towers. The barracks occupy the spaces along the walls be-
tween the towers, and are two stories high. On the east-and-west axis of the fortress,
and west of the north-and-south axis, is a small chapel, and below the south wall, on
the outside, near the west end, is a small reservoir with a stout wall, reached from
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bears an Ξ-27 lg the names of the Augusti and Caesares under
whom th=-rt. ate in Greek which is equivalent to 306 A.D.,
scame Caesar. On the south wall of the fortress,
lother Latin inscription 3 which gives the names
nd is therefore to be dated between the years
Ters to the castellus, and probably records its
upon the outer face of the lintel of the door-
:ords the building of the reservoir (λάκκος) and
Agrippa. In the walls of the southeast angle,
9uth side and of the southern half of the east
edges mixed with ordinary quadrated blocks
ription of Valentinian and his associates in the
believe, belonged to a building, probably a
stern Umm Kosfer, that was earlier than either
probably of the second century. The chapel
lighly finished masonry, and in part of smooth
of its north wall, its west wall and the foundation
145
70. IDJ-DJUBAIYEH.
Southwest of Icnat, well out in the desert, is this small ruin, the only important
feature of which is a tower about 12 m. high. The tower seems to have belonged to
a small church; for an apse is still visible adjoining the tower on the north side.
The group of ruins was probably once a monastery, with its church and tower, and
with a courtyard surrounded by monastic buildings.
71. DER IL-KAHF.
Fortress 306 A.D. Far out in the desert, on the line of an ancient Roman road
and upon a mediaeval caravan route, stand the ruins of an ancient fortress known to
the Arabs by the name of D6r il-Kahf. It is quite certain that the region was not
desert in ancient times; for all the way from Lnat there are remains of ancient walls
that divided fields, and the traces of furrows still remain as evidence of former culti-
vation. These signs of former fertility extend farther to the south and southeast, as
far as the eye can reach. The fortress was built on the usual lines of Roman military
posts in Syria, and is well preserved. The plan (Ill. 127) is a large rectangle, over
60 m. square, with an entrance in the middle of the east wall (Ill. 128). The four
angles are strengthened by square towers of three stories, which break out slightly
from the line of the side walls, and the north and west sides have similar towers mid-
way between the angle towers. The barracks occupy the spaces along the walls be-
tween the towers, and are two stories high. On the east-and-west axis of the fortress,
and west of the north-and-south axis, is a small chapel, and below the south wall, on
the outside, near the west end, is a small reservoir with a stout wall, reached from
the
o
σ>
3 Div. Ill, insc. 330.
, insc. 329.
•3·
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Φ
0
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way wm<=-
the aque=-
in those =-
side are e-
(111. 129)=·
imperiumE"
small mi=·
of the
within thE"
quadrate(E“
interior of the fortress by a narrow doorway.
The— ‘ fl UB jjejhthree periods of building here, and inscriptions
of two dE- , lying among the debris in the outer entrance,
bears an Ξ-27 lg the names of the Augusti and Caesares under
whom th=-rt. ate in Greek which is equivalent to 306 A.D.,
scame Caesar. On the south wall of the fortress,
lother Latin inscription 3 which gives the names
nd is therefore to be dated between the years
Ters to the castellus, and probably records its
upon the outer face of the lintel of the door-
:ords the building of the reservoir (λάκκος) and
Agrippa. In the walls of the southeast angle,
9uth side and of the southern half of the east
edges mixed with ordinary quadrated blocks
ription of Valentinian and his associates in the
believe, belonged to a building, probably a
stern Umm Kosfer, that was earlier than either
probably of the second century. The chapel
lighly finished masonry, and in part of smooth
of its north wall, its west wall and the foundation