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Burdj Hedar — Kefr Nabo or Nabu
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side. The chapel is narrow and undivided. The sanctuary, which is as wide as the
nave, is separated from the nave by a tall narrow arch. The slabs of the pavement
rest on the transverse arches of a basement, or crypt, in the rock-hewn walls of which
arcosolia were carved. The chapel has a western porch. The building adjoining it on
the north consists of three rooms and a long covered passage next to the chapel.
House : I have chosen for publication a single example from among the private
residences at Burdj H^dar; and this because of a certain novelty of plan. The house
is in the northern part of the town, and faces south. Its plan (Ill. 319) presents one
new feature, conforming otherwise to the ordinary type of two-storey house. Four of
the eight bays, or divisions, of the lower portico of piers are walled up, and four are
open, alternating by pairs. The upper portico was entirely open and was provided
with a parapet in the usual method. The intermediate floor between the upper and
lower porticos consists of stone slabs which lie longitudinally, and are carried on stout
transverse stone beams, the ends of which project in salient bosses (Ill. 320). The
lower floor consists of one large and two smaller rooms in the main part of the house
besides the two apartments walled off in the portico space. The large room had a
transverse row of mangers which divided off a stable at one end.
Among the ruins of domestic architecture in this place are a number of staircases
carved in single blocks of stone. The example illustrated herewith (Ill. 321) is a section
of staircase with six steps, and there were other sections even larger. Staircases of
this sort appears to have been common in the Djebel Sim'an ; but we found none in
its original position.
85. KEFR NABO or NABU.
Almost due north of Burdj Hedar, upon the next plateau, with a broad shallow
valley lying between, rise the ruins of this old town, for which the Arab geographer
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side. The chapel is narrow and undivided. The sanctuary, which is as wide as the
nave, is separated from the nave by a tall narrow arch. The slabs of the pavement
rest on the transverse arches of a basement, or crypt, in the rock-hewn walls of which
arcosolia were carved. The chapel has a western porch. The building adjoining it on
the north consists of three rooms and a long covered passage next to the chapel.
House : I have chosen for publication a single example from among the private
residences at Burdj H^dar; and this because of a certain novelty of plan. The house
is in the northern part of the town, and faces south. Its plan (Ill. 319) presents one
new feature, conforming otherwise to the ordinary type of two-storey house. Four of
the eight bays, or divisions, of the lower portico of piers are walled up, and four are
open, alternating by pairs. The upper portico was entirely open and was provided
with a parapet in the usual method. The intermediate floor between the upper and
lower porticos consists of stone slabs which lie longitudinally, and are carried on stout
transverse stone beams, the ends of which project in salient bosses (Ill. 320). The
lower floor consists of one large and two smaller rooms in the main part of the house
besides the two apartments walled off in the portico space. The large room had a
transverse row of mangers which divided off a stable at one end.
Among the ruins of domestic architecture in this place are a number of staircases
carved in single blocks of stone. The example illustrated herewith (Ill. 321) is a section
of staircase with six steps, and there were other sections even larger. Staircases of
this sort appears to have been common in the Djebel Sim'an ; but we found none in
its original position.
85. KEFR NABO or NABU.
Almost due north of Burdj Hedar, upon the next plateau, with a broad shallow
valley lying between, rise the ruins of this old town, for which the Arab geographer
Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria, Div. II, Sect. B, Pt. 6. 39