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Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria I, 1899
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To the (blank) of Kefr Kila and (blank) of Ḳalb Lauzi are extensive remains of a town of importance and early date. The chief ruin here is called by the natives dâr el-melik (palace of the King) nearby is an elaborate rock cut tomb with an inscription in Greek and, in the immediate neighborhood, the ruins of extensive buildings and private houses.
The ruins of the palace are not particulary extensive consisting of only a small building preserved in two stories with small plain windows and two well built round arches, springing from piers ^ with moulded caps, ^ which covered a passage about 8ft wide connecting the courtyard with the tower in the north. Besides this only the tower portions of the walls are found and these greatly dilapidated. The court-yard
