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on the south with a large empty cistern
of the common bottle form, and remains
of small structures about it.

On the north is a second court several
feet below the level of the floor of
the main building and, ^ on ^ opposite side
considerable remains of important buildings
which had colonnaded porticoes and richly
carved lintels over the doors which
open on the court.

It seems quite possible, in view of the
presence of the second building to call
this a civil basilica. Ecclesiastical
symbols are no ^ peculiar ^ mark of religious
structures for almost every house in the whole
region has the cross and other symbols
above its doorways. The town of Beḥyō
was certainly of sufficient importance
to have its own public basilica which
might have been the magistraterial
centre for the surrounding smaller
towns.

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