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Serdjilla
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The building should be compared with the descriptions and illustrations of the baths
at Midjleyya x, at Babiska3 and at Brad 8, with all of which it has many elements in
common; but from each of which it differs in many important details.
“Cafe”. This building should be classed with the public, rather than with the
domestic, architecture of the region; for it was unquestionably connected with the bath
(Ill. 137). It had no courtyard or enclosed garden about it, as all private houses had,
it faced directly upon
the street, and its
interior accommoda¬
tions are not suitable
for domestic pur¬
poses. It was first
published by M. de
Vogue, who gave a
plan and an eleva¬
tion on small scale 4;
it was illustrated in
the American Expe¬
dition’s publications5,
and here I shall pre¬
sent it once more
with a drawing on
large scale. The
building, though
small, is interesting
as an example of
an ancient public
house, and as one
of the most perfectly preserved structures in all the ruined and deserted towns in Syria.
The plan (Ill. 138) shows a portico of three columns, closed at both ends; then the
front wall of the building which, within, consists of a single large room, divided at the
rear by a row of piers with mangers between them; behind the piers is a space for
horses to stand; in the end of this space, toward the bath, is a doorway that was not
to be closed by a door. The upper story has a loggia of three colums, a large room
within, and a long narrow chamber above the stable. The sides and rear of the buil-
ding are plain and almost unbroken; but the south fatjade (Ill. 138), with its two
stories of columns and their architraves, is well proportioned and pleasing. The lower
columns are higher than the others; they have moulded attic bases of flat profile, and
capitals of that design which is peculiar to Northern Syria, in which a simple moulded
Doric or Tuscan capital, with a cyma recta echinos, is provided with two heavy
moulded brackets which extend out beneath the architrave on either side. Corbels in
the returned walls at the ends of the portico correspond to the brackets of the capi-
tals. The epistyle, like most epistyles in the Christian architecture of Syria, combines
1 S.C. Pl. 55. A.A.E.S. II, pp. 264-5. 2 Div. Sect. B, Pt. 4.
i S.C. Pls. 55, 56. 5 A.A.£.S. II, p. 179.
3 Ibid. Pt. 6.
123
The building should be compared with the descriptions and illustrations of the baths
at Midjleyya x, at Babiska3 and at Brad 8, with all of which it has many elements in
common; but from each of which it differs in many important details.
“Cafe”. This building should be classed with the public, rather than with the
domestic, architecture of the region; for it was unquestionably connected with the bath
(Ill. 137). It had no courtyard or enclosed garden about it, as all private houses had,
it faced directly upon
the street, and its
interior accommoda¬
tions are not suitable
for domestic pur¬
poses. It was first
published by M. de
Vogue, who gave a
plan and an eleva¬
tion on small scale 4;
it was illustrated in
the American Expe¬
dition’s publications5,
and here I shall pre¬
sent it once more
with a drawing on
large scale. The
building, though
small, is interesting
as an example of
an ancient public
house, and as one
of the most perfectly preserved structures in all the ruined and deserted towns in Syria.
The plan (Ill. 138) shows a portico of three columns, closed at both ends; then the
front wall of the building which, within, consists of a single large room, divided at the
rear by a row of piers with mangers between them; behind the piers is a space for
horses to stand; in the end of this space, toward the bath, is a doorway that was not
to be closed by a door. The upper story has a loggia of three colums, a large room
within, and a long narrow chamber above the stable. The sides and rear of the buil-
ding are plain and almost unbroken; but the south fatjade (Ill. 138), with its two
stories of columns and their architraves, is well proportioned and pleasing. The lower
columns are higher than the others; they have moulded attic bases of flat profile, and
capitals of that design which is peculiar to Northern Syria, in which a simple moulded
Doric or Tuscan capital, with a cyma recta echinos, is provided with two heavy
moulded brackets which extend out beneath the architrave on either side. Corbels in
the returned walls at the ends of the portico correspond to the brackets of the capi-
tals. The epistyle, like most epistyles in the Christian architecture of Syria, combines
1 S.C. Pl. 55. A.A.E.S. II, pp. 264-5. 2 Div. Sect. B, Pt. 4.
i S.C. Pls. 55, 56. 5 A.A.£.S. II, p. 179.
3 Ibid. Pt. 6.