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Ishruk

The square building west of the church is
low, with heavy overhanging cornice, it
is built of large quadrated blocks and its
walls seem to have been unbroken except
for a broad doorway, with simply ornamented
lintel, and a large window beside it quite
plain on the exterior but provided within
with moulded top and sides. The only window
so ornamented that I have noticed here.

The other buildings are much ruined and
sadly delapidated.

M'arsaba Just east of the hill of Ishruk are the
ruins of a simple monastery of no great
size built in plain large quadrated style.
Little of it is standing and the ruin is
of little interest. Below it on the side
of the hill, facing west is a large rock cut
chamber with remains of presses inside.
There is an outer and an inner chamber, well
hewn in the rock. On the south wall of the
former over a niche is an insc. in GK. cut in
large letters - giving simply a name.