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Bānḳûsa

Domestic Architecture. The domestic architecture of the
town is of two general classes, polygonal
and quadrated. Of the former there
are two types of a rougher and a finely
cut and fitted kind both have door
and window frames of large monoliths.

The rough polygonal type is represented
in a small house west of the centre of the
town. It seems to have been of only one story.
The walls are exceedingly thick and laid
with double face. The lintel and jambs
of the doorway are exceedingly massive
as is the framing of the small windows.
Within the house is a large hewn basin
^ 10ft. diam. ^ with sides three feet high.

The majority of the houses were in
simple quadrated style, some of them
were large with courtyards. One retains
an arched vestibule before an ornamented
house portal, like that in Dauwâr

The colonnaded style seems not to have
been prevalent