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Maʿarit Bêṭar

We visited a number of ancient sites to the south
and south east of Ḥâṣṣ but found them all
completely ruined having long been used
as quarries for the town of Maʿarrit en Noricʿên.

At Maʿarit Bêṭar are fragments of a small
tomb or aediculae with pieces of an insc.
which seems to have been carried around the
building upon the architrave moulding.
The plan seems to have been distyle in antis
with simple roman doric columns. The roof was
formed of huge slabs of stone flat on the under
side and cut to form a ridge above. The gable
stone is well preserved. It measures 3m. 30 by
1m 50, it is 57cm thick at the gable where two
mouldings are represented and a rayed disc
in the centre. At the ends arcosolia are
represented like the homes of the sarcophagi of the region.

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Maʿarit Bêṭar

We visited a number of ancient sites to the south
and south east of Ḥâṣṣ but found them all
completely ruined having long been used
as quarries for the town of Maàrrit en Noricʿên.

At Maʿarit Bêṭar are fragments of a small
tomb or aediculae with pieces of an insc.
which seems to have been carried around the
building upon the architrave moulding.
The plan seems to have been distyle in antis
with simple roman doric columns. The roof was
formed of huge slabs of stone flat on the under
side and cut to form a ridge above. The gable
stone is well preserved. It measures 3m. 30 by
1m 50, it is 57cm thick at the gable where two
mouldings are represented and a rayed disc
in the centre. At the ends arcosolia are
represented like the homes of the sarcophagi of the region.