Princeton Expeditions to Syria (1899, 1904-1905, 1909)

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in the S. connecting wall. In one of these parts of the portal of one of the square buildings were crudely utilized, and the details were built into the wall. The two square buildings are in the best classic style of the Haurân, They are not of the same size, that to the West being slightly ^ the ^ smaller. The exterior designs of the two are disimiliar, the medium heavy the richer of the two in string courses and base mouldings. It would seem that both buildings faced the north unless they faced each other which is unlikely. In any case both facades have been destroyed, and it is interesting to find the other elevations so rich in ornament since, in the Haurânian, the facades of temples displayed most of the decoration. The wall designed and deeply carved details still to be seen in the ruin show that the facades are unusally beautiful.

Sairit-il-Khida The ruins in this place have been completely broken up in the building of the modern village. A capital with a Nabataean inscription is the most important of many details.