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Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria IV, 1900
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Index - Part IV.
Apamêa p.6 Bâra p. 42 Baʿuda p. 40 Bīnîn p. 69 Btersa p. 53 Dâna (lower) p. 77 Dier Sambil p. 70 Djebel Ḥass p. 79 Djerâdi p. 74 Djisril-Medjdal p. 3 Frîkyā p. 72 Hammâmid Djêdj p. 73 Ḥâṣṣ p. 14 Hass-Djebelil p. 79 Isriyeh p. 97 Kal'at il Mudîk p. 6 Kal'at Sedjar p. 5 Ḳaṣr Zebed p. 96 Kefr Anbil p. 22 Kefrinneh p. 55 Khanâsir p. 82 Khirbil Ḥâss p. 23 Kinnisrin p. 80 Larissa p. 5 Maʿarit Bêṭar p. 21 Maʿarit Mâtir p. 14 Mektebeh p. 80 Mohâra p. 56 Midjleyeh p. 47 Muʿallak p. 86 Rbʿêa p. 30 Ruwêḥā p. 60 Serdjilla p. 32 Siqhâra p. 69 Shenan p. 72 Ḳaṣr Zebed p. 90
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From Kinnisrin we traveled eastward a day into the Djebel Ḥâss making our first stop at Mektebeh. From this point a number of ruins were visited.
At first glance, one notices many differences between the ruins of this district and those of the mountains further west. The buildings are not nearly so well preserved owing to the material of which they were constructed and the manner in which they were built.
The building stone of all this locality is a hard black basalt, difficult to quarry and still more difficult to carve. It was almost impossible to cut the stone in large quadratic blocks and in consequence the buildings were constructed with walls of small irregular blocks laid in clay in the manner of the rough polygonal style which we have seen in the western mountains. The door lintels and jambs were usually of monoliths cut smooth on two sides and left very rough on the others. Other details such as columns, caps
