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Dâna (lower)

On the 11th Jewitt and Huxley visited
this place, the former to take some measure-
ments of the monuments the latter to
photograph them. This town must not be
confused with Dâna of the plain just
south of Djebel Simʿan. It is one of the
large ruins of the Eastern slope of the Djebel Rîhā and was visited by de Vogüé. Several
of the monuments were drawn and planned
by him. In all probability the place
was in a better state of preservation [...] years ago.
The proximity of Ni'arra and the village which
has grown up on the ancient site would
account for the great dilapidation of the ruins.

Two large funeral monuments seem
to be the chief monuments. One of these
at the north of the town is of special interest.
It is of the pyramidal order very like the
great tomb at Bara and apparently belonging
to the same period as one would judge
from the ornament. This example is