Butler, Howard Crosby; Princeton University [Hrsg.]: Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 2, Sect. B ; 4) (1909)

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St. Paul and Moses at Dar Kita, two churches in the immediate neighbourhood which
belong to the same quarter of the fifth century as this church, and which were perhaps
designed by the same architect. The interior ornament here was confined to the archi-
volts of the apse arch and that of the prothesis, the caps of the responds at the ends of
the nave arcades, and the capitals of the columns. These capitals are interesting in
that they present new types (Ill. 170), and that there were no two capitals of the
on opposite sides of the nave.


ft
III


111. 170.


LINTEL at A

DATE
414A-D-

KSEDJBEH-
EAST CHVRCH-

'.SCALE OF
BE TAILS:
jcri-iri-



Next to the apse were capitals of the Corinthian order (B) composed of the smooth
leaves of water plants. Garlands of fine flowers were draped from the middle of one
side of the abacus to the middle of the next side, passing beneath the volutes and
large angle leaves, and giving the appearance of holding the leaves in place. The
abacus was not moulded, but was decorated with striations like the Romanesque dog-
tooth ornament. The other capitals are inverted, truncated cones treated like baskets,
one pair (C) being decorated with fillets interlaced with discs of different patterns, an-
other (D) with vertical grooves, and the fourth (E) with heavy beaded basket-work.
The exterior ornament seems to have been massed upon the two portals in the south
wall. I found no remains of a western portal in the ruins of the west wall of this
church, and the two neighbouring churches, already mentioned as belonging to the same