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This east arch is semicircular and is 10m.50
wide inside measurement. And this curve embraces
the entire width of the building and there are
no remains of rooms beside it - it is scarcely
possible to support that this was a church.
There are in fact few christian remains in
Ḳalʿat il Muḍîḳ.

On the slope of the hill south of the acropolis
near the road leading down to the water are
the remains of a great structure all of which
has disappeared but a fragment in the
form of a section of an arched substructure
covered with huge slabs. This doubtless formed
the basement of a temple or monumental building.

The exterior (the north wall) shows a decoration of
pilasters with good Corinthian caps and a
fine entablature above them.