ENPages That Mention Larissa
Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria IV, 1900
BSY_FB_16-01_indexa
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
BSY_FB_16-05
5
Ḳalʿat Sêdjar (Larissa) March 16, 1900
The site of ancient Larissa situated on a curve of the Orontes where the river comes through a narrow rocky gorge and flows out into the plain preserves few traces of the Greco-Roman city.
The acropolis is occupied by the ruins of a Saracenic castle and a squalid modern village it occupies the abrupt end of a rocky ridge and was cut off from the ridge by a broad deep moat excavated in the rock on the south. To the east the rock falls steeply to the river. To the north and west it decends to the plain. The whole acropolis was surrounded by a heavy wall the foundations of which are doubtless in situ. It was reached in ancient times by a bridge over the moat in the south as it is today tho' the present bridge is Saracenic. The late ruins are full of classic fragments - columns, caps bases and lots of decoration. The caps are Corinthian & Ionic.
In the plain are traces of a wall which enclosed the lower city and the surface is shown with ancient architectural fragments.
