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10

Bāḳirḥa

Many of the houses have ample colonnades
whose rectangular monolithic pillars
show considerate variety in their sculptured
caps. There are rows of six or eight piers in
which no two caps are exactly similar in design.

Most of the upper colonnades are panelled,
some have seats on the inside. One row of
houses of a somewhat poorer class, built of large
well squared bricks have the interesting feature
of a small porch over the doorway with steps
of stone leading up against the walls of the house.
These are perfectly plain and of massive
construction. Only the upper and lower
steps are preserved but it is easy to see
just how the flight of steps ascended.
Over one doorway in a small but well built house
is a symbolic disc surrounded by an over
hanging sled (sic-ledge) of a single stone.

Below the town are the remains of a tomb
which consisted of two huge sarcophagi raised
upon a high rectangular base. One of these
is still in situ tho somewhat broken.