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II. B. 3.
name have once been convents. This may have been true in certain instances, but in
others the native tradition has been at fault. In the case before us, it seems very
doubtful if the building was originally a convent or a religious building of any kind.
The ruin in question stands beside an ancient road, that led from Dana up into the
hills in a northwesterly direction. It is only a few minutes’ ride from Dana, and would
be in plain view from the pyramidal tomb but for a knoll that rises between. The
plan of the building is irregular (Pl. XIII); on the south is a two-story portico of five
piers; within this, on the west, is a long narrow room or entrance passage, opening
at the right upon a wider room of
the same length. Through an arch
in the east wall of this second room
opens a small rectangular chamber
which projects from the main east
wall of the building. North of the
two rooms just mentioned is a suite
of three rooms, projecting in an L
to the west. These rooms are on
a level considerably lower than that
of the rest of the building; the
middle room is a passage connect-
ing, by a flight of steps and a
doorway, with the entrance to the
south, and having an outside door-
way to the north. There are deep
cellars or cisterns excavated in the
solid rock beneath the portico and
the large room, the wall between
them being of natural rock. The
floor of the portico and of the
entrance passage are composed of
long slabs. The floor of the large
room was of wood and has disap¬
projecting
stone; its
The rectangular chamber
to the east is covered with a double-pitched roof of well fitted slabs of
floor is also of stone slabs. The second floor had but two rooms in it; one
over the large room and one over the entrance passage. This floor has its loggia
over the south portico, and the entire space above the three north rooms is a great
open loggia with tall square piers, and a parapet of plain slabs. The room above the
entrance passage, and the loggia, are both roofed with slabs of stone. This much of
the building is perfectly preserved, and no restoration is necessary; but an examination
of the ruin reveals, as the photographs show (Ills. 163 and 164), that this was not
all of the building. The main partition wall, i. e., the wall that separates the northern
from the southern part of the building, is carried up another story and has two door-
ways in it (Pl. XIV, South Elevation); the piers, architrave and parapet of a third-story
loggia, a little lower than the one below it, are perfectly preserved on the north-.while
a groove for a panel, countersunk in the west end of the third story wall (Ill. 163)
II. B. 3.
name have once been convents. This may have been true in certain instances, but in
others the native tradition has been at fault. In the case before us, it seems very
doubtful if the building was originally a convent or a religious building of any kind.
The ruin in question stands beside an ancient road, that led from Dana up into the
hills in a northwesterly direction. It is only a few minutes’ ride from Dana, and would
be in plain view from the pyramidal tomb but for a knoll that rises between. The
plan of the building is irregular (Pl. XIII); on the south is a two-story portico of five
piers; within this, on the west, is a long narrow room or entrance passage, opening
at the right upon a wider room of
the same length. Through an arch
in the east wall of this second room
opens a small rectangular chamber
which projects from the main east
wall of the building. North of the
two rooms just mentioned is a suite
of three rooms, projecting in an L
to the west. These rooms are on
a level considerably lower than that
of the rest of the building; the
middle room is a passage connect-
ing, by a flight of steps and a
doorway, with the entrance to the
south, and having an outside door-
way to the north. There are deep
cellars or cisterns excavated in the
solid rock beneath the portico and
the large room, the wall between
them being of natural rock. The
floor of the portico and of the
entrance passage are composed of
long slabs. The floor of the large
room was of wood and has disap¬
projecting
stone; its
The rectangular chamber
to the east is covered with a double-pitched roof of well fitted slabs of
floor is also of stone slabs. The second floor had but two rooms in it; one
over the large room and one over the entrance passage. This floor has its loggia
over the south portico, and the entire space above the three north rooms is a great
open loggia with tall square piers, and a parapet of plain slabs. The room above the
entrance passage, and the loggia, are both roofed with slabs of stone. This much of
the building is perfectly preserved, and no restoration is necessary; but an examination
of the ruin reveals, as the photographs show (Ills. 163 and 164), that this was not
all of the building. The main partition wall, i. e., the wall that separates the northern
from the southern part of the building, is carried up another story and has two door-
ways in it (Pl. XIV, South Elevation); the piers, architrave and parapet of a third-story
loggia, a little lower than the one below it, are perfectly preserved on the north-.while
a groove for a panel, countersunk in the west end of the third story wall (Ill. 163)