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Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria IV, 1900
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W. Church. At the west end of the town is another large church similar in plan to the other in general lines. The apse again is more than a circle and the walls of the side chapels do not form right angles (see plan). The long nave is divided by two rows of only three piers, laid up on courses and capped by a single moulded stone. These piers are nearly square in plan (about 1m. sq.) and seem slender to have supported the great arches which must have been 5m.75 broad and very high.
Two of these piers are still intact. There were two portals on either side and three at the west. The lower courses here are constructed of quadrated blocks and the upper were doubtless like those of the east church but have completely disappeared. It was from this church that (blank) reported an important bilingual insc. GK. Syriac. Arabic - which had been on the western portal. This has now been lost and has doubtless been carried away to Aleppo (date Zachau 521 A.D.)
Norris: Diary, January - May, 1905
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Serdjillā 8:00 A. M. Temp 55° Baro L 27.65
few cirrus & cumulus clouds - light var. air
Working on mosaic all day
The Mudir showed us orders from the Wali of Aleppo to prevent us working any more on the mosaic. Work stopped.
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Serdjillā 9:00 A. M. Temp 59° Baro. L. 27.60
clear, calm to light var.
The chief of police of Idlib which is the seat of a Kaimmakam who presides over this district, arrived about 8:30 P.M. with two soldiers. He said he had orders to stop us from working, from the Wali of Aleppo. He had coffee and cigarettes and being at first a little officious became agreeable and apparently friendly.
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Damascus - Left on 8.30 train for Beirut - enjoyable ride - three natives in compartment part of way. One of them evidently did not like the Weli of Aleppo very much. His description of him not being fit to write. Arrived Beirut about 5.30 P.M.
L. P&N. only for above - B. left in Damascus
Butler Notes: Islamic Architecture in Central and Northern Syria
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From the Djebel Rîhā we moved Eastward, and, crossing the great highway (the hadj route) between Aleppo and the north and Damascus to the South, found ourselves in the rolling country that lies between the mountains and the desert. The first strip of rolling hills is of limestone formation, a finer and more perishable quality of limestone than that of the mountains; this changes gradually into basalt toward the East. There are many villages in this first region to the east of the road, and some smaller settlements in the W. part of the basalt region, and there are well cultivated tracts in both districts; but further east there is less and less cultivation, fewer built dwellings and more bedawin tents until the desert is reached, and this itself is pastured by the Arabs during a part of the year, but the whole region is full of ruins which are naturally better preserved where there are fewer villages. In the 1st region, few ruins are preserved at all.
