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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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79 District (Second Trip) Djebel il Ḥâss
From Djebel Rîhā we moved the camp to the north passing through the plain along the eastern slope of the Djebel Bārîsha to Kiftîn where we camped for the night and then moved in crossing the south western section of the Djebel Ḥaluḳa and passing through Sermedā into the low northern foothills of the Djebel Bārîsha camping at Bābisḳa from which point we visited several ruins in the district which we had seen before and others which we had not seen.
From here after a stay of five days we started Eastward passing first to the S.E. and retracing the Roman road that crosses the Djebel Ḥaluḳa from the Dânā plain to Kefr Kermîn. We then turned eastward to Kinnisrin where we found a large mound with remains of a great wall about it and foundation walls of great buildings all over the top where marble fragments and bits of mosaic show the former existence of fine structures.
About the foot of the mound were other fragments and remains of the wall of the lower city. History short of excavations however will avail at ancient Colchis.
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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
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District V (Second Trip)
On the second trip as we moved north from the Djebel Rîhā on the way to Kinnisrin and the Djebel Ḥâṣṣ, we moved the camp for several days back to the northern end of the Djebel Bārîsha which we had reached in the autumn from Bashmishli. This made it more easy to study the before unknown ruins of this part of the Djebel, Dukîta, Bābisḳa, etc - and to reach the low western hills of the Djebel Ḥaluḳa which lie between the Djebel Bārîsha and Djebel Simʿān.
The line of demarcation between the Djebel Bārîsha and the Djebel Ḥaluḳa is a deep narrow valley, running east and west, through which passes the ancient Roman road, which connected Antioch with Kinnisrin , a portion of which we saw in the southern part of the circular Djebel Ḥaluḳa near Kefr Kermîn*
*see p. 1
