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

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illustration, column, pilaster, cornice

illustration, jamb, frieze, grapevine, leaves

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Middle Gate. This was found to be parallel with neither of the other gates and not on axis with either of them. The plan is quite different from that shown in deVogüés sketch plan in text. The opening most nearly opposite gate of the Theatron, and the widest of the extant portals, is 263m. in width, South of this is a portal 1.88 wide, and south of this again a jamb, indicating that there were 2 narrow gates in the S. of the wide opening. On the N. of it the wall is high and unbroken. To the east of this wall and heaped up against of it - are extensive remains of a Roman structure - 1/2 columns, richly carved bits of architrave, frieze and cornice, as if the original openings of the Nabataean gate on this side had been closed by this building which opened upon the E. west. Long walls, like deep buttresses project from the gate [wistand]. In front of the gate, in the E. about 3m. from the jamb stands a column base with two rows of lunes (one circled). The narrower fragments of mouldings probably belonged to niches between the gates.