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Division II Section A Part 4
in my presentation of two of the monuments described above, and I shall depend upon
it wholly for all the plans of the Theatre which I shall present; but the untimely death
of Professor Puchstein has greatly delayed the publication of the material which he
collected in Syria, and which, but for his death, would have been published before
now in his own masterly style. I have been unable by correspondence to secure any
information from his notes, and I am therefore obliged, since I wish to include all the
buildings of Bosra in this publication, to present these two buildings by means of such
data as I have at hand, that is, by photographs, by measured ground-plans which were
made for the survey, and by measurements and sketches of detail which I happened
to make in leisure moments.
Temple. Among the crowded group of modern dwellings on the high ground in
the southeast quarter of the town are many remnants of an ancient building, or buil-
dings, that crowned this most imposing of the sites in the city. The most conspicuous
of these remains are two columns, one of which is complete, and which are marked as
"Corinthian Columns” on our map of the city, standing almost due east of the East
Arch, and north of Church No. 2. It was found impossible to trace the outlines of
the ground-plan of any ancient structure among the crude hovels and cramped court-
yards and stables which fill this quarter of the modern village. A piece of heavy wall
of highly finished masonry with two storeys of niches in it (A in Plan, Ill. 219), an-
other bit of wall, not unlike a large parotid (B), and the two columns (C), are shown
Division II Section A Part 4
in my presentation of two of the monuments described above, and I shall depend upon
it wholly for all the plans of the Theatre which I shall present; but the untimely death
of Professor Puchstein has greatly delayed the publication of the material which he
collected in Syria, and which, but for his death, would have been published before
now in his own masterly style. I have been unable by correspondence to secure any
information from his notes, and I am therefore obliged, since I wish to include all the
buildings of Bosra in this publication, to present these two buildings by means of such
data as I have at hand, that is, by photographs, by measured ground-plans which were
made for the survey, and by measurements and sketches of detail which I happened
to make in leisure moments.
Temple. Among the crowded group of modern dwellings on the high ground in
the southeast quarter of the town are many remnants of an ancient building, or buil-
dings, that crowned this most imposing of the sites in the city. The most conspicuous
of these remains are two columns, one of which is complete, and which are marked as
"Corinthian Columns” on our map of the city, standing almost due east of the East
Arch, and north of Church No. 2. It was found impossible to trace the outlines of
the ground-plan of any ancient structure among the crude hovels and cramped court-
yards and stables which fill this quarter of the modern village. A piece of heavy wall
of highly finished masonry with two storeys of niches in it (A in Plan, Ill. 219), an-
other bit of wall, not unlike a large parotid (B), and the two columns (C), are shown