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Kerratin, (Tarzttia).
South Church. This is a small church, apparently part of a group of conventual
buildings, on the southeastern confines of the ruins. The building is in ruins quite
level with the surrounding debris. The plan (Ill. 80)
was traced with some difficulty; but I think there
can be no serious error in the plan as here pre¬
sented. The interior arrangement is unusual; the
nave is wider than it is long, the central aisle is
wide, and was divided from the side aisles by columns.
At the east end of the central aisle is a partition
wall with a doorway in it. How high this wall may
have been is impossible to say, but, beyond it, is a
choir 5.55 m. long and 8 meters wide, flanked by
the side chambers. The sanctuary is rectangular,
5.60m. wide; its arch is set back from the line of
the east wall of the choir. In the choir there are
several broken column shafts which may have be¬
longed to a ciborium. There is an inscription 1 on
the lintel of a doorway in the south aisle. In the north aisle there are two doorways
leading into large arched rooms that flank the north side of the church. Beyond these,
and also on the west of the church, there are foundations of other apartments; on the
south side of the church there was a court surrounded with rooms; but it is not possible
to extricate the plan without removing much debris.
Tower No. i. 509—io a.d. Near the centre of the town is a structure about
12 m. square, with walls 1.80 m. thick, and loop-hole windows. An inscription2 on
its portal calls the building Kopyo;, and gives the date 509-10. It is then one of those
military or civil towers so common in all this region; but it is, by all means, the
largest and most pretentious building of its kind that I have seen.
The ground floor is preserved in
completeness (Ill. 81). Entering
by a narrow doorway, one finds
himself in a narrow passage, a
sort of entrance hall; to the left
is a doorway opening into a large
square chamber spanned by an
arch which is still in situ. At
the end of the entrance hall is
a square chamber, which has a
doorway at the left, leading into
a chamber of the same size. These two rooms occupy
the angles of the tower, and are each lighted by two
deeply splayed windows. The walls of the upper story
have fallen outward, so that the ground story is hardly
visible from the outside owing to the debris. I pre-
sume that the tower was originally as high as that of Temek, which had four stories.
Tower No. 2. On the eastern confines of the town are the ruinsofa smaller tower (Ill. 82)
1 Div. Ill, insc. 999. 2 Div. Ill, insc. 992.
Ker rat In-
To we h
EASTSIDE
of Wins-
111. 80.
South Church. This is a small church, apparently part of a group of conventual
buildings, on the southeastern confines of the ruins. The building is in ruins quite
level with the surrounding debris. The plan (Ill. 80)
was traced with some difficulty; but I think there
can be no serious error in the plan as here pre¬
sented. The interior arrangement is unusual; the
nave is wider than it is long, the central aisle is
wide, and was divided from the side aisles by columns.
At the east end of the central aisle is a partition
wall with a doorway in it. How high this wall may
have been is impossible to say, but, beyond it, is a
choir 5.55 m. long and 8 meters wide, flanked by
the side chambers. The sanctuary is rectangular,
5.60m. wide; its arch is set back from the line of
the east wall of the choir. In the choir there are
several broken column shafts which may have be¬
longed to a ciborium. There is an inscription 1 on
the lintel of a doorway in the south aisle. In the north aisle there are two doorways
leading into large arched rooms that flank the north side of the church. Beyond these,
and also on the west of the church, there are foundations of other apartments; on the
south side of the church there was a court surrounded with rooms; but it is not possible
to extricate the plan without removing much debris.
Tower No. i. 509—io a.d. Near the centre of the town is a structure about
12 m. square, with walls 1.80 m. thick, and loop-hole windows. An inscription2 on
its portal calls the building Kopyo;, and gives the date 509-10. It is then one of those
military or civil towers so common in all this region; but it is, by all means, the
largest and most pretentious building of its kind that I have seen.
The ground floor is preserved in
completeness (Ill. 81). Entering
by a narrow doorway, one finds
himself in a narrow passage, a
sort of entrance hall; to the left
is a doorway opening into a large
square chamber spanned by an
arch which is still in situ. At
the end of the entrance hall is
a square chamber, which has a
doorway at the left, leading into
a chamber of the same size. These two rooms occupy
the angles of the tower, and are each lighted by two
deeply splayed windows. The walls of the upper story
have fallen outward, so that the ground story is hardly
visible from the outside owing to the debris. I pre-
sume that the tower was originally as high as that of Temek, which had four stories.
Tower No. 2. On the eastern confines of the town are the ruinsofa smaller tower (Ill. 82)
1 Div. Ill, insc. 999. 2 Div. Ill, insc. 992.
Ker rat In-
To we h
EASTSIDE
of Wins-
111. 80.