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Djūwanîyi

The civil architecture of the town consists
of 2 story colonnades, one of which is still
well preserved. It has well carved capitals
with moulded bases and decorated panels
of unusual design (see photo and squeeze) It stands
in the eastern part of the town.

Domestic architecture. The houses are chiefly in massive
polygonal or large quadrated style both have
simply decorated lintels with discs. One
of these lintels bears a GK. insc. date October 10, 377 A.D.
(W.K.P. inscr.54)

Few of the houses had colonnades, one however
toward the north, facing south has a single
story colonnade of very massive sub-Doric
columms with exaggerated entasis.

All of the houses are of large dimentions
and have the appearance of being early.
Those partially excavated in the rock have
megalithic supports and huge-stone roofs.
One of this style is a wine press - one of the
most interesting that we have seen.