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II. B. 4.
sadly ruined state, yet no hand but that of time has broken its arches and overthrown its
walls. I reached the spot too late in the day to make a thorough examination of it, and
noted only one square building in the town that seemed to preserve a semblance of its
ancient state. This was, to all appearances, a baptistery about the size of the baptistery
of the Church of St. Paul and Moses at Dar Kita; but it was simpler in design and had
111. 200.
no projecting apse. The church to which it belonged lies in a mass of ruins below it.
Tomb. On the outskirts of the town another structure, in a complete state of pre-
servation, arrested my attention, and this I stopped to photograph and measure; for
it seemed to belong to an earlier age than the mass of ruined buildings in the town
itself. It is a rock-hewn tomb with a dignified facade built up in regular courses and
having two columns that carry a gabled pediment and a roof of stone slabs. The
tomb proper (Ill. 200) is hewn in the solid rock of the mountain side. Its square
chamber, with its entrance on one side and arcosolia on the other three sides, is of
the common type; but the upper part of the front wall, with the doorway in it, and
the whole of the columned porch before it are built in the finst technique of the country.
II. B. 4.
sadly ruined state, yet no hand but that of time has broken its arches and overthrown its
walls. I reached the spot too late in the day to make a thorough examination of it, and
noted only one square building in the town that seemed to preserve a semblance of its
ancient state. This was, to all appearances, a baptistery about the size of the baptistery
of the Church of St. Paul and Moses at Dar Kita; but it was simpler in design and had
111. 200.
no projecting apse. The church to which it belonged lies in a mass of ruins below it.
Tomb. On the outskirts of the town another structure, in a complete state of pre-
servation, arrested my attention, and this I stopped to photograph and measure; for
it seemed to belong to an earlier age than the mass of ruined buildings in the town
itself. It is a rock-hewn tomb with a dignified facade built up in regular courses and
having two columns that carry a gabled pediment and a roof of stone slabs. The
tomb proper (Ill. 200) is hewn in the solid rock of the mountain side. Its square
chamber, with its entrance on one side and arcosolia on the other three sides, is of
the common type; but the upper part of the front wall, with the doorway in it, and
the whole of the columned porch before it are built in the finst technique of the country.