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Bacudeh
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projecting courses a basin was carved, and cut back into the pier, necessitating the
cutting of a niche in the face of the next course above. A small canal was bored in
an oblique direction backward from the level of the rim of the basin affording a drain
for excess of water. Basins of very similar character were discovered in two or three
K5EDJBEH-
D WEST CHVRCH-
SECTION B-A
SECTION C-D-
RESTORATIONS •
5 CALE: .5CM---1M-
COLYMBION-
scale un¬
churches in the Hauran 1; but these were placed on the outside, near the entrances
to the churches, and are consequently to be classed as colymbia, or holy-water-basins;
while this, owing to its position on the interior, and between the site of the altar and
the entrance to the diaconicum, might more properly be considered as a piscina for
the washing of the sacred vessels.
51. BA'UDEH.
On this site we found the ruins of a large market town. It is situated high up
above the Roman road, at the top of a gorge that opened upon the great highway,
and up which an ordinary country road was carried. The town was not more than
a quarter of an hour from the Roman road. The ruin lies at the foot of the spur
upon which Ksedjbeh stands, and the view of it (Ill. 172) from that town presents
rows of upright piers, in two stories, connected by architraves, — the stoae of many
bazaars and inns that still stand along the narrow streets. There is no town in all
Northern Syria, so far as I have observed, the ruins of which show so unmistakably
a strictly commercial character. These ruins cover a large area ; at one side is a small
church, apparently of great age with later alterations : on all sides of this, except to-
wards the east, are streets lined with rows of open stoae or bazaars (Ill. 173), and
1 II, A. 2. Ill. 74.
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projecting courses a basin was carved, and cut back into the pier, necessitating the
cutting of a niche in the face of the next course above. A small canal was bored in
an oblique direction backward from the level of the rim of the basin affording a drain
for excess of water. Basins of very similar character were discovered in two or three
K5EDJBEH-
D WEST CHVRCH-
SECTION B-A
SECTION C-D-
RESTORATIONS •
5 CALE: .5CM---1M-
COLYMBION-
scale un¬
churches in the Hauran 1; but these were placed on the outside, near the entrances
to the churches, and are consequently to be classed as colymbia, or holy-water-basins;
while this, owing to its position on the interior, and between the site of the altar and
the entrance to the diaconicum, might more properly be considered as a piscina for
the washing of the sacred vessels.
51. BA'UDEH.
On this site we found the ruins of a large market town. It is situated high up
above the Roman road, at the top of a gorge that opened upon the great highway,
and up which an ordinary country road was carried. The town was not more than
a quarter of an hour from the Roman road. The ruin lies at the foot of the spur
upon which Ksedjbeh stands, and the view of it (Ill. 172) from that town presents
rows of upright piers, in two stories, connected by architraves, — the stoae of many
bazaars and inns that still stand along the narrow streets. There is no town in all
Northern Syria, so far as I have observed, the ruins of which show so unmistakably
a strictly commercial character. These ruins cover a large area ; at one side is a small
church, apparently of great age with later alterations : on all sides of this, except to-
wards the east, are streets lined with rows of open stoae or bazaars (Ill. 173), and
1 II, A. 2. Ill. 74.