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(29) Faʿlûl

to a point a few paces S.E. of the church
where it lay half-buried. There is no sign
that there were columns within the circle
of the main wall, though a marble column
and capital were found partly buried in
another part of the ruined tower. The interior
is quite filled up with broken bricks & mortar
which almost certainly formed a dome, but
whether the dome carried the whole central
space, being traced at E. & W. by apse and
narthex, is difficult to say. There are
fragments of a brick wall above the basalt
wall of the ground story, and a number of
large marble blocks, like piers 1.73 high, stand
at intervals in the second story of the wall.

The marble window frames of the apse were
ornamented with delicate low reliefs outside
and inside, the mouldings are of eastern
rather than western form.