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il-Mushennef. May 21, 1900

This is a small ruined town about an
hour to the south of Tarba. Several
inscriptions were reported from here by M. Waddington
but the buildings were not published by de Vogüé.

The greater portion of the town is completely
ruined - a part has been rudely rebuilt to
accommodate a small number of Druse families.

The sole interesting feature of the place is
now the Roman Temple - a little building
in excellent style - well preserved except for
its facade which has been greatly disfigured
by being walled up with loose stones where
the building was fortified.

Its plan is distyle in antis. It is
raised upon a low base. The cella seems
to have had no Eastern wall behind the
columns but was spanned by two transverse
arches, which sprang from deep pilasters,
and supported a roof of stone?

The temple is constructed of well-dressed
and fitted blocks of basalt - the four angles