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il-Haiyat.
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ceilings, and divided into two storeys below the gallery. The rooms of the upper floor
correspond exactly with those below them, except that the smaller rooms are apparently
not subdivided into storeys. I found it impossible to enter all the rooms, especially
three now occupied, but could see enough of the building to make a very satisfactory
plan and section. The stonework of the interior is all well finished, the outer walls are
of roughly dressed stones. The windows on the ground floor are small, some of them
being only loop-holes. In the upper floor the openings are larger, and some of them
are protected by long hoods carried on well-turned corbels. Other openings show the
5CALE;.20’CM=1M·
IL-HAIYAT
HOVSL
OF
FLAVI05 5L05 ·
DATM76AD·
EB
Ill. 322.
relation of the two-storey portions to the three-storey parts of the house. The east
wall has deep grooves for descending water-pipes which resemble the perpendicular
channels in the ancient baths of the Hauran. The longer of the two inscriptions is inscribed
upon the lintel of the westernmost doorway in the upper storey, on the north side of
the court, - that on the left in the Section A-B in Ill. 322. Waddington1 says that
the stone has been cut down; this may be true, but it is certainly in the place for which
it was made, and the writing is intact.
1 Wadd., 2110. cf. also interesting commentary.
363
ceilings, and divided into two storeys below the gallery. The rooms of the upper floor
correspond exactly with those below them, except that the smaller rooms are apparently
not subdivided into storeys. I found it impossible to enter all the rooms, especially
three now occupied, but could see enough of the building to make a very satisfactory
plan and section. The stonework of the interior is all well finished, the outer walls are
of roughly dressed stones. The windows on the ground floor are small, some of them
being only loop-holes. In the upper floor the openings are larger, and some of them
are protected by long hoods carried on well-turned corbels. Other openings show the
5CALE;.20’CM=1M·
IL-HAIYAT
HOVSL
OF
FLAVI05 5L05 ·
DATM76AD·
EB
Ill. 322.
relation of the two-storey portions to the three-storey parts of the house. The east
wall has deep grooves for descending water-pipes which resemble the perpendicular
channels in the ancient baths of the Hauran. The longer of the two inscriptions is inscribed
upon the lintel of the westernmost doorway in the upper storey, on the north side of
the court, - that on the left in the Section A-B in Ill. 322. Waddington1 says that
the stone has been cut down; this may be true, but it is certainly in the place for which
it was made, and the writing is intact.
1 Wadd., 2110. cf. also interesting commentary.