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Refadeh. Sitt ir-Rum.
167
Published by Waddington, No. 2698. See also M.
de Vogiie: 5. C. Pl. 94. S. de Ricci (from a copy by
Gosche) in R. Archeol. 1907, 2, pp. 286 and 293 f. A.A.E.S.
hi, No. no. Div. II, b, p. 259!. and Pl. xxii.
The monument stands facing northward, on the south side of a small wadi. The two
shafts are monoliths, about 16 feet high, 71 cm. broad at the face, and 68 cm. apart.
About 9 feet up on the face of each is a socket as if for a tablet or a relief, about
21/2 feet high, and a foot or foot and a half broad1. The whole architrave is about
1.80 m. in length. The first line of the inscription is upon the low frieze, above the
architrave proper, and originally below the heavy cornice, which has fallen from the
monument and was found by Professor Butler in the dromos of the tomb below. The
other three lines are upon the three bands of
the architrave, below a cymatium. The letters
are large, and were originally most handsomely
carved, but are now somewhat weathered.
The tomb itself is almost directly below
the monument: the entrance is some yards
towards the north, but the dromos, cut down
into the sloping hillside, leads towards the
south. Within the tomb is a large chamber,
having in each side two arcosolia: the first,
third and sixth of these, beginning at the right
of the entrance, contain each three sarcophagi,
side by side and with their ends towards the
center of the chamber. The other arcosolia
contain each two sarcophagi. See Div. II, b,
p. 259 f.
Monument bearing. Inscr. 1152.
The inscription was copied by Gosche,
Belgian consul at Aleppo, about the year
1 702. Afterwards it was copied by MM. Wad¬
dington and de Vogiie. Apparently none of
these gentlemen had the use of a ladder,
and for this reason were unable to make
more complete copies. The copy by Gosche
is far better than the others: this is probably
due, not so much to the fact that he visited
the monument some two centuries before the
others, as to a difference in the light upon
the inscription. If M. Gosche was able to visit this place very early in the morning,
he might have had a little sun-light shining across the letters, and so have been able
to read easily from the ground much more than is visible from below at ordinary
times. Standing on a level with the inscription, however, I judged all the letters, except
those specially marked in my copy, absolutely certain. I believe there is practically no
doubt about any of them, except at the very end of the last line. For this reason I
1 I think it possible that one of these tablets has been discovered by MM. Toselli at Antioch, and published by
M. Victor Chapot in 2?. des Et. Anc. VI (1904), p. 31. It bears the inscription ©soJofrze Ίσ-ζίοτον %&ΐρε.
167
Published by Waddington, No. 2698. See also M.
de Vogiie: 5. C. Pl. 94. S. de Ricci (from a copy by
Gosche) in R. Archeol. 1907, 2, pp. 286 and 293 f. A.A.E.S.
hi, No. no. Div. II, b, p. 259!. and Pl. xxii.
The monument stands facing northward, on the south side of a small wadi. The two
shafts are monoliths, about 16 feet high, 71 cm. broad at the face, and 68 cm. apart.
About 9 feet up on the face of each is a socket as if for a tablet or a relief, about
21/2 feet high, and a foot or foot and a half broad1. The whole architrave is about
1.80 m. in length. The first line of the inscription is upon the low frieze, above the
architrave proper, and originally below the heavy cornice, which has fallen from the
monument and was found by Professor Butler in the dromos of the tomb below. The
other three lines are upon the three bands of
the architrave, below a cymatium. The letters
are large, and were originally most handsomely
carved, but are now somewhat weathered.
The tomb itself is almost directly below
the monument: the entrance is some yards
towards the north, but the dromos, cut down
into the sloping hillside, leads towards the
south. Within the tomb is a large chamber,
having in each side two arcosolia: the first,
third and sixth of these, beginning at the right
of the entrance, contain each three sarcophagi,
side by side and with their ends towards the
center of the chamber. The other arcosolia
contain each two sarcophagi. See Div. II, b,
p. 259 f.
Monument bearing. Inscr. 1152.
The inscription was copied by Gosche,
Belgian consul at Aleppo, about the year
1 702. Afterwards it was copied by MM. Wad¬
dington and de Vogiie. Apparently none of
these gentlemen had the use of a ladder,
and for this reason were unable to make
more complete copies. The copy by Gosche
is far better than the others: this is probably
due, not so much to the fact that he visited
the monument some two centuries before the
others, as to a difference in the light upon
the inscription. If M. Gosche was able to visit this place very early in the morning,
he might have had a little sun-light shining across the letters, and so have been able
to read easily from the ground much more than is visible from below at ordinary
times. Standing on a level with the inscription, however, I judged all the letters, except
those specially marked in my copy, absolutely certain. I believe there is practically no
doubt about any of them, except at the very end of the last line. For this reason I
1 I think it possible that one of these tablets has been discovered by MM. Toselli at Antioch, and published by
M. Victor Chapot in 2?. des Et. Anc. VI (1904), p. 31. It bears the inscription ©soJofrze Ίσ-ζίοτον %&ΐρε.