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Division II Section B Part 5
brackets, - simple inverted half pyramids which supported the timbering of the
roof. The date of this charming little structure should be placed at about 470 A.D.;
for its mouldings and its capitals are precisely similar to corresponding details in the
immediate vicinity, which are dated between 470 and 472 of our era.
Tower House. I venture to publish this most conspicuous of Serdjibleh’s anti-
quities, on larger scale, and from a different point of view to that of the former pub-
lication -, for the reason that this building remains unique, even after the whole extent
of the Djebel SinTan has been explored. The ground plan, elevation, and longitudinal
sections presented herewith (Ill. 232) require no elaborate description beyond that given
50VTH ELEVATION-
5ERDJIBLEH-
BEK
TOWER-HOVSE-
Ill. 232.
in the earlier publication but I shall once more discuss the purpose of the structure.
I have called it a tower-house because I believe that, whether it served as a watch-
tower or not, it was inhabited by one or more families, or by a number of soldiers,
according as we consider it a private or a public building. The important fact is that
it was planned and constructed for domestic residential purposes. Its ground plan
seems to have provided a stable, separated from the upper floors by a stone ceiling,
and an entrance hall with a stairway. The floor next above the ground has a rather
military, defensive look, owing to the use of deeply splayed loop-hole windows; but
the three storeys above this, lighted by numerous large windows, fitted with cupboards
and niches cut into the walls, and, one of them, provided with a double latrina, were
living apartments offering more than usual spaciousness and convenience. The build-
ing is quite intact, lacking only its wooden floors and roof, plaster on its walls and
doors for its doorways, to make it habitable to-day. It must be considered as a five-
1 A.A.E.S. II. p. 254.
Division II Section B Part 5
brackets, - simple inverted half pyramids which supported the timbering of the
roof. The date of this charming little structure should be placed at about 470 A.D.;
for its mouldings and its capitals are precisely similar to corresponding details in the
immediate vicinity, which are dated between 470 and 472 of our era.
Tower House. I venture to publish this most conspicuous of Serdjibleh’s anti-
quities, on larger scale, and from a different point of view to that of the former pub-
lication -, for the reason that this building remains unique, even after the whole extent
of the Djebel SinTan has been explored. The ground plan, elevation, and longitudinal
sections presented herewith (Ill. 232) require no elaborate description beyond that given
50VTH ELEVATION-
5ERDJIBLEH-
BEK
TOWER-HOVSE-
Ill. 232.
in the earlier publication but I shall once more discuss the purpose of the structure.
I have called it a tower-house because I believe that, whether it served as a watch-
tower or not, it was inhabited by one or more families, or by a number of soldiers,
according as we consider it a private or a public building. The important fact is that
it was planned and constructed for domestic residential purposes. Its ground plan
seems to have provided a stable, separated from the upper floors by a stone ceiling,
and an entrance hall with a stairway. The floor next above the ground has a rather
military, defensive look, owing to the use of deeply splayed loop-hole windows; but
the three storeys above this, lighted by numerous large windows, fitted with cupboards
and niches cut into the walls, and, one of them, provided with a double latrina, were
living apartments offering more than usual spaciousness and convenience. The build-
ing is quite intact, lacking only its wooden floors and roof, plaster on its walls and
doors for its doorways, to make it habitable to-day. It must be considered as a five-
1 A.A.E.S. II. p. 254.