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Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria IV, 1900
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This is one of the most important ruins visited by de Vogüé - it stands quite by itself and there is no village near. A few bedouins have settled in one of the better preserved houses.
Ruwêḥā is situated on one of the lower ridges on the easternmost slopes of the [Djebel ...] (Rîhā) It looks out toward the level desert, only one ruin can be seen further to the east that is Serardi.
The ruins are notable for two well preserved churches, of quite different styles and apparently of widely separate periods, a wonderful group of private houses and several tombs of uncommon beauty - well preserved.
Churches. The North church was carefully published by de Vogüé. It is one of the largest church edifices of the region standing quite alone surrounded by a high well built wall. Within the entrance are two large tombs, one to the north and one to the south of the nave near its east end. The church differs from the ordinary church structures of the region in having but three great
