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The temple and a small town well built
at the summit of a steep rocky hill -
the former at the extreme west on a narrow
point, precipitions on three sides.

The town does not compare favourably in
style with the temple - the ruins show only
the crudest forms of building in rough stones
The houses were small and irregular.

It is not possible to say whether it belongs
in the earlier or the later period.

From the eastern gate of the eastern most
court of the temple a broad paved road
leads down the hill at an easy angle ^ on the northern slope. ^ There
are ruins of houses on the upper and lower
sides of this road.

There are no remains of houses on the plain
below but a number of tomb structures
are scattered over a broad area - one of
these contains an interesting inscription
in Nabataean date ( blank ) while another
was of equilateral triangular plan, well
built with fine mouldings at its base -

There are fragments of 2 ornamented sarcophagus