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78
II. B. 2.
but it undoubtedly served the purposes of a minaret. The lintel which was originally
in the inner entrance, and which is now fitted to the door of the mosque, is shown
in a photograph, under inscription No. 977 in Div. III. It shows a still greater ten-
dency toward the elaborateness of the later lintels.
House No. 4. 443-4 a.d. In this example we have a more highly elaborated
Details
Kebbatin-
HovseN°4- "
I Date: ^3/4
plan (Ill. 86), and a remarkable state of preservation, though the ground story was
all but buried in the collapse of the upper walls. Two columns of the colonnade, with
a section of architrave above them, are still in situ, and other columns are preserved
to about half their
height. In the middle
of the section of ar-
chitrave which is still
in situ is written the
year1 and nothing
more. This house
faces south; it con-
sists of three large
rooms with girder-ar-
ches, and two small-
er chambers in the
rear, opening from
the west and middle
rooms; behind the
east room is a ter-
race. In front of
the house extended
a two-story colon-
nade ; at its east end
is a doorway open-
ing into a vestibule which is built out from the house; it is a long apartment
spanned by a transverse arch and leading out of doors through an arch at its north
Ill. 87. Kerratin. Columns of House No. 4.
1 Div. Ill, insc. 978.
II. B. 2.
but it undoubtedly served the purposes of a minaret. The lintel which was originally
in the inner entrance, and which is now fitted to the door of the mosque, is shown
in a photograph, under inscription No. 977 in Div. III. It shows a still greater ten-
dency toward the elaborateness of the later lintels.
House No. 4. 443-4 a.d. In this example we have a more highly elaborated
Details
Kebbatin-
HovseN°4- "
I Date: ^3/4
plan (Ill. 86), and a remarkable state of preservation, though the ground story was
all but buried in the collapse of the upper walls. Two columns of the colonnade, with
a section of architrave above them, are still in situ, and other columns are preserved
to about half their
height. In the middle
of the section of ar-
chitrave which is still
in situ is written the
year1 and nothing
more. This house
faces south; it con-
sists of three large
rooms with girder-ar-
ches, and two small-
er chambers in the
rear, opening from
the west and middle
rooms; behind the
east room is a ter-
race. In front of
the house extended
a two-story colon-
nade ; at its east end
is a doorway open-
ing into a vestibule which is built out from the house; it is a long apartment
spanned by a transverse arch and leading out of doors through an arch at its north
Ill. 87. Kerratin. Columns of House No. 4.
1 Div. Ill, insc. 978.