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II. B. i. The cAla.
' all sides of the village. They seem to have been all of one general type, i. e. they
were built about a small, square, colonnaded court, the moms being on three of four
sides. A large cistern occupies the middle of each court. The plan and arrangement
of these dwellings is illustrated in a better preserved example of a house of the same
type at it-Tuba, a drawing of which is given in Ill. 20.
9. ZABBUDEH.
A deserted ruin extending over a large space on high ground. The place was
apparently rebuilt and inhabited during the middle ages. Columns, capitals and frag-
'ments of mouldings, all of the common types, lie in the ruins, and several inscriptions
were found here. Hardly one stone is left upon another, however, and I did not stop
long enough to attempt to trace out the lines of any buildings. There are undoubted
remains of a church upon the spot, but not enough to warrant the making of a plan.
10. TELL ID-DEHEB.
The small inhabited village of this name was once a town of fair size, if one may
judge by the remains of ancient architecture now in its ruins; but it was completely
rebuilt in Mohammedan times, and without excavation no ancient building can be found
even in foundation walls. North of the town rises a tall
conical tell that is a conspicuous landmark for miles around
(Ill. 13). The tell is fortified by a slanting wall of bowlders
laid in a sort of polygonal style: it is small on its flat
summit, in the centre of which is the opening of a deep
well or cistern. A winding road led up to the top. The
whole tell appears to be artificial; its core consists of loose
rubble mixed with clay. This is one of those constructions
to which I have referred in the introduction (p. 3) as
far older, in my opinion, than the Roman or Christian
remains of the district, and to be classed with similar crude
walling found in the Hauran.
•orly built and ruinous mosques, one on the east and one
on the west side of the tell. In these buildings there are many shafts and capitals of
columns of types already illustrated, and of other forms, two of which are shown in
Ill. 14. There are also mouldings, broken jambs and other details of early Christian
architecture.
Tellid-Beheb-
Capitals-
111. 14.
There are two small,
11. KUNBUS.
This is one of the sites of the cAla which I did not reach, but Mr. Norris, who
visited the place, brought me a sketch, with careful measurements written in upon it,
of a detail which seems to me to be of considerable interest. From Mr. Norris' sketch
and measurements I made the scale drawing here presented. The detail (Ill. 15) is
the post of a chancel rail. On two sides it has sinkings for the insertion of the panels
II. B. i. The cAla.
' all sides of the village. They seem to have been all of one general type, i. e. they
were built about a small, square, colonnaded court, the moms being on three of four
sides. A large cistern occupies the middle of each court. The plan and arrangement
of these dwellings is illustrated in a better preserved example of a house of the same
type at it-Tuba, a drawing of which is given in Ill. 20.
9. ZABBUDEH.
A deserted ruin extending over a large space on high ground. The place was
apparently rebuilt and inhabited during the middle ages. Columns, capitals and frag-
'ments of mouldings, all of the common types, lie in the ruins, and several inscriptions
were found here. Hardly one stone is left upon another, however, and I did not stop
long enough to attempt to trace out the lines of any buildings. There are undoubted
remains of a church upon the spot, but not enough to warrant the making of a plan.
10. TELL ID-DEHEB.
The small inhabited village of this name was once a town of fair size, if one may
judge by the remains of ancient architecture now in its ruins; but it was completely
rebuilt in Mohammedan times, and without excavation no ancient building can be found
even in foundation walls. North of the town rises a tall
conical tell that is a conspicuous landmark for miles around
(Ill. 13). The tell is fortified by a slanting wall of bowlders
laid in a sort of polygonal style: it is small on its flat
summit, in the centre of which is the opening of a deep
well or cistern. A winding road led up to the top. The
whole tell appears to be artificial; its core consists of loose
rubble mixed with clay. This is one of those constructions
to which I have referred in the introduction (p. 3) as
far older, in my opinion, than the Roman or Christian
remains of the district, and to be classed with similar crude
walling found in the Hauran.
•orly built and ruinous mosques, one on the east and one
on the west side of the tell. In these buildings there are many shafts and capitals of
columns of types already illustrated, and of other forms, two of which are shown in
Ill. 14. There are also mouldings, broken jambs and other details of early Christian
architecture.
Tellid-Beheb-
Capitals-
111. 14.
There are two small,
11. KUNBUS.
This is one of the sites of the cAla which I did not reach, but Mr. Norris, who
visited the place, brought me a sketch, with careful measurements written in upon it,
of a detail which seems to me to be of considerable interest. From Mr. Norris' sketch
and measurements I made the scale drawing here presented. The detail (Ill. 15) is
the post of a chancel rail. On two sides it has sinkings for the insertion of the panels