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Division II Section B Part 6
there were two doorways with brackets beside their lintels to carry beams of stone.
There is also a small doorway in the north wall near its west end. The chancel arch
was narrow and high (Sect. A.-B.); this arch and the wall above it have fallen.
The side walls were also high, and provided with a row of large windows high up ;
the west wall had one window over the portal on a level with the side windows.
The cornice of the building is salient, and appears from the photograph (Ill. 342) to
have a bevel-face profile; but I did not mention this in my notes. If this is true it
is the only cornice of its kind in a Christian building in Northern Syria, and was
undoubtedly influenced by the presence of the cornice of the Public Bath which, for
many reasons, must be a far older building. All the rest of the ornament, though
quite profuse, is incised. The deeply incised mouldings of the windows describe wide
loops, like swags, between the openings; those of the portals are very deeply carved.
These mouldings in the westernmost doorway in the south aisle are broken in the
middle of the lintel to describe three quarters of a circle about a large round disc.
The mouldings of the west window, are unique in their playful decorative effect, being
twisted into two knot-like loops above the arch, and terminating in the usual scrolls
below. Detail drawings of this window and of the lintel mentioned above are given
’ in Ill. 343-
C ELEVATION A-Er ■ SF.O.TI ON C-D ■
RESIDENCE7
DATE--496AD-
FLAN AND RESTORATIONS-
Ill- 344-
Residence? Date? 496 A. D. I have placed an interrogation point after the title
of this building for the reason that, although its outward appearance is that of a private
house, its interior arrangement is unlike any residence in Syria, and because of an
inscription,1 which was undoubtedly connected with the building, which contains the
names of at least five persons who were responsible for its erection, beside the names
1 III, B. 6, inscr. 1177.
Division II Section B Part 6
there were two doorways with brackets beside their lintels to carry beams of stone.
There is also a small doorway in the north wall near its west end. The chancel arch
was narrow and high (Sect. A.-B.); this arch and the wall above it have fallen.
The side walls were also high, and provided with a row of large windows high up ;
the west wall had one window over the portal on a level with the side windows.
The cornice of the building is salient, and appears from the photograph (Ill. 342) to
have a bevel-face profile; but I did not mention this in my notes. If this is true it
is the only cornice of its kind in a Christian building in Northern Syria, and was
undoubtedly influenced by the presence of the cornice of the Public Bath which, for
many reasons, must be a far older building. All the rest of the ornament, though
quite profuse, is incised. The deeply incised mouldings of the windows describe wide
loops, like swags, between the openings; those of the portals are very deeply carved.
These mouldings in the westernmost doorway in the south aisle are broken in the
middle of the lintel to describe three quarters of a circle about a large round disc.
The mouldings of the west window, are unique in their playful decorative effect, being
twisted into two knot-like loops above the arch, and terminating in the usual scrolls
below. Detail drawings of this window and of the lintel mentioned above are given
’ in Ill. 343-
C ELEVATION A-Er ■ SF.O.TI ON C-D ■
RESIDENCE7
DATE--496AD-
FLAN AND RESTORATIONS-
Ill- 344-
Residence? Date? 496 A. D. I have placed an interrogation point after the title
of this building for the reason that, although its outward appearance is that of a private
house, its interior arrangement is unlike any residence in Syria, and because of an
inscription,1 which was undoubtedly connected with the building, which contains the
names of at least five persons who were responsible for its erection, beside the names
1 III, B. 6, inscr. 1177.