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which is standing, and from dispersed fragments, it would seem that it enclosed the
pool of water. It is evident that the lower part of the fragment now in situ is deeply
buried; for the Corinthian columns are very short in proportion to their diameter.
Ihis fragment consists of a rectangular pier and two columns carrying an architrave
with two bands and a highly finished cymatium; but its important feature is a remnant
of an upper storey consisting of a pier, with a pilaster on its face, carrying the spring-
stones of two small moulded arches. Its original form is easily restored. The frieze
above the main architrave is a low member with a rightlined moulding at the top; and,
Ill. 293. is-Sanamen; Colonnade on South Side of Birkeh.
in place of a cornice, there is a plain course of stone upon which the piers of the
upper storey were set. It is practically certain that there was a pier above each column,
and that these piers carried narrow arches, and that pilasters were run up between the
arches to carry a continuous entablature above them. It is both interesting and im-
portant to find an arcade above a colonnade at so early a period; for the details of
these columns and the mouldings of the arcade above them are not appreciably later
than the Tychaion. These remains are worthy of thorough and systematic investigation
by means of excavations, and their remoteness from dwellings or other modem buildings
would render such an undertaking both simple and inexpensive.
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321
which is standing, and from dispersed fragments, it would seem that it enclosed the
pool of water. It is evident that the lower part of the fragment now in situ is deeply
buried; for the Corinthian columns are very short in proportion to their diameter.
Ihis fragment consists of a rectangular pier and two columns carrying an architrave
with two bands and a highly finished cymatium; but its important feature is a remnant
of an upper storey consisting of a pier, with a pilaster on its face, carrying the spring-
stones of two small moulded arches. Its original form is easily restored. The frieze
above the main architrave is a low member with a rightlined moulding at the top; and,
Ill. 293. is-Sanamen; Colonnade on South Side of Birkeh.
in place of a cornice, there is a plain course of stone upon which the piers of the
upper storey were set. It is practically certain that there was a pier above each column,
and that these piers carried narrow arches, and that pilasters were run up between the
arches to carry a continuous entablature above them. It is both interesting and im-
portant to find an arcade above a colonnade at so early a period; for the details of
these columns and the mouldings of the arcade above them are not appreciably later
than the Tychaion. These remains are worthy of thorough and systematic investigation
by means of excavations, and their remoteness from dwellings or other modem buildings
would render such an undertaking both simple and inexpensive.
Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria, Div. II, Sec. A, 11. 5·
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