Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria IV, 1900

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after the completion of the temple - a portion of the ornament with which it was embellished was cut in the temple walls, but an incision was made for sitting in a triangular pediment.

In later times this little niche, which faced the South, seems to have been in closed with a wall and to have been pressed into service by the Mohammedeans as a mihrab for a little mosque. The temple was doubtless at the same time the stronghold of some Arab potentate.

This little temple from the style of its design and the material of which it is made (a pure white limestone yellowing with age) is a foretaste of Palmyra - between this point and Palmyra it is a continuous stretch of desert without signs of ancient occupation.

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Ballu. Le monastère Byzantin de Tébesse

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plan, Details of the Basilica Apamea

6 windows in place Windows wide 1.40 Windows high 2.60

Pilasters 90 wide Spaces 2.80

Details of the Basilica

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Basilica. A little north of the great colonnade are the massive remains of a palace or large civic building. It faces the colonnade on the west side of it, and its portico was connected with the colonnade.

It consists of a main building of simple plan surrounded with smaller colonnades in the form of connecting courts.

The main building opened ^ upon ^ the colonnade, to north and south were square colonnaded courts. In the rear was an open space bounded in the west by a massive wall pierced with large windows. Before this wall, in the east, ran a fine colonnade. The east wall of the main building was prolonged on either side and formed the rear wall of small chambers & shops opening upon the colonnaded avenue. This wall at its ends turned to the west to join the rear wall of the grand court - few traces of it remain. Thus a large area was enclosed with walls on three sides of the basilica - The enclosure is of full of broken columns which must have divided the area into several rectangular colonnaded courts.

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drawing, architectural profiles

Pilasters 80 wide Bottom course of pilaster 40 deep

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Int. Col's Shaft 5.08 high Cap .70 high Base .70 diam Sq base .90

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Moulding all around .15 deep Base below bottom mould .40 deep Base L top of small cornice 2.70 Cornice .35 deep

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Moudings of small doorway E. .70

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