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II. B. 2.
Gabriel indicates that the corbel may have been taken from the church which bore the
name of the Archangels.
Door of Basalt. Amoncf the ruins of a tomb southwest of the ruined town lies
a door of basalt of unique pattern. The face of the door (Ill. i t 6) is divided by
raised stiles into four square and six oblong panels. The oblong panels at the top
and bottom are deeply sunken and moulded; the two oblong panels in the middle are
decorated with a shallow herring-bone pattern and have no mouldings. Of the four
square panels one contains the -f-, while the others are geometrically divided in different
ways, the flat spaces being filled with lozenges or conventionalized leaves. The drawing
of the door may be compared with those shown in Ills. 67 and 68.
40. IS-SEKECAH.
Here is a small settlement situated in the midst of cultivated fields, though there
is arid land in all directions about it. In the centre of the village rises a square structure
of basalt (Ill. 117), 9 m. by 9.80 m. on the ground, and about 4 m. high, apparently
Ill. 117. Is-Sekecah, Tower, from Southwest.
in a perfect state of preservation; though the natives informed us that they had removed
the partly ruined walls of another story when the ancient building was repaired for
habitation. The building appears to have been one of the larger and more elaborate
of the towers so frequently found in this region, and is indeed the most interesting
in detail of any that I saw, and the largest of all except the tower at Kerratin. In
II. B. 2.
Gabriel indicates that the corbel may have been taken from the church which bore the
name of the Archangels.
Door of Basalt. Amoncf the ruins of a tomb southwest of the ruined town lies
a door of basalt of unique pattern. The face of the door (Ill. i t 6) is divided by
raised stiles into four square and six oblong panels. The oblong panels at the top
and bottom are deeply sunken and moulded; the two oblong panels in the middle are
decorated with a shallow herring-bone pattern and have no mouldings. Of the four
square panels one contains the -f-, while the others are geometrically divided in different
ways, the flat spaces being filled with lozenges or conventionalized leaves. The drawing
of the door may be compared with those shown in Ills. 67 and 68.
40. IS-SEKECAH.
Here is a small settlement situated in the midst of cultivated fields, though there
is arid land in all directions about it. In the centre of the village rises a square structure
of basalt (Ill. 117), 9 m. by 9.80 m. on the ground, and about 4 m. high, apparently
Ill. 117. Is-Sekecah, Tower, from Southwest.
in a perfect state of preservation; though the natives informed us that they had removed
the partly ruined walls of another story when the ancient building was repaired for
habitation. The building appears to have been one of the larger and more elaborate
of the towers so frequently found in this region, and is indeed the most interesting
in detail of any that I saw, and the largest of all except the tower at Kerratin. In