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Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria V, 1900
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The site of ancient Emessa preserves but one architectural fragment of antiquity, this is a ruined tomb structure just outside the limits of the modern town on the high road to Tripoli.
The monument besides being the only remnant of the ancient city is of great interest in itself as one of the few Roman structures preserved to us in which the masonry was designed to give a polychromatic effect.
The tomb was a square tower like structure ^38 feet sq^ of two stories and an attic with vaulted chambers, built all of concrete faced with opus reticulatum and adorned with pilasters and mouldings.
The reticulated work was executed in a white limestone in which a simple pattern is wrought in black basalt. The pilasters are built up of brick shaped blocks of the
