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Sîʿ May 26, 1900

This place, which furnished such
interesting material to M. deVogüé, is now a
complete mass of ruins - The great temple of
the Nabataean god which deVogüé published
with its ground plan and elevation, it series
of courtyards and gorgeous portals is
scarcely traceable without minute study
with deVogüés plans in mind.

So the ruin offered little to us for study but
its fragmental details, which are by far
the most interesting in the Haurân, and
a number of inscriptions of value new and old.

The sculptured architectual details belong
to two distanct periods - That of the early
Nabataean temple of the 1st century and that
of the Roman occupation about 100 years later
he took many photographs to illustrate these
styles - which thanks to Prentice - will
prove of great interest. There are also
numerous fragments of sculpture in relief
and the [...] - of the latter we brought away
a specimen torso.