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27a

Ksêdjbeh

On our second visit to the Djebel Barîsha
we visited a ruined town on the top of a
hill southeast of Babîska only half an hour
from that place but hidden from the town.

The ruin is quite extensive and ^ consists ^
almost completely of rough stone ^ houses ^
with quadrangular colonnades and megalithic
doorways. It has two churches however
one large and one small, both built of large
quadrated blocks.

West church. The smaller of the two is detatched and
stands well to the west of the town. It is of
the simple three aisled type with right lined
apse. The plain west wall, the south wall
with an ornamental doorway and porticos
of the east and with the arch of the south chapel
are preserved. The ornament of the western and
northwest seems to have been of the simplest
character and there is nothing about
the building that would give a clue to the
date.