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Turlâha

its curved apse being hidden on the exterior.
It was divided by two rows of arches on columns.
The carving of the pilaster caps of the apse
is of good sub-corinthian order.

The arches of the nave have been replaced
by Saracenic arches built up on heavy
piers making the original central nave
somewhat narrower. These arches have
a partly ruined Saracenic tunnel vault
not badly constructed, buttressed by two
barrel vaults over the side aisles. The
vault ridge of this later construction
is not in line with the centre of the semidome
of the ancient apse.

Domestic architecture. Among the ruined houses is one
that preserves a single column of a 2 story
colonnade and one in large polygonal
style with a GK. insc. (W.K.P. insc. 34) 363 A.D.