Butler: Bosra to Umm idj-Djimal, 1904-1905

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1 Book II Bosra to Umm idj-Djimâl Djemarrîn The Haurân

There are many roads leading from Bosra passing through towns in the immediate suburbs. We explored only two of these, both leading in northerly directions, and of these only a few miles were covered. The first road took us about due north to Djemarrîn passing by the Dêr Miknī, a small ruin of crude character showing little dressed stonework and only a few columns. This was probably the site of a small convent of little importance.

At Djemarîn there seems to have been a large villa with numerous dependancies rather than a town. Nearby is a fine bridge over the Wadi iz-Zêdī, which corresponds in style and manner of building, with the bridge over the same Wadi near it-Taiyiheh, and undoubtedly was built at about the same time - 164 A.D.

The bridge in question is larger in every way than that near it-Taiyiheh, having

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Three instead of two arches, and being considerably higher. The wadi, at this point, is deep and narrow with rocks rising steeply on either side. Great columns of water gush down the wadi at certain seasons even today and for this reason it is necessary to give large space for the passage of the water, and to raise the roadway as high as possible. On the upper or Eastern side slanting walls, as high as the bridge are built out into the rocky banks and [prevented] guards are provided to each pier to guide the water and to turn it in its flow under the bridge. In this structure we find an attempt at ornament, a deep overhanging moulding, is used at the spring of the arches and was carried across the Western sides of the piers. On one of the piers an axe is carved in relief upon the capstone of the guard near the point. According to an inscription

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