BSY_FB_17-21

OverviewTranscribeVersionsHelp

Facsimile

Transcription

Status: Needs Review

21

There is a distinct difference beween
the architectural style exhibited in these
Christian ruins in Selemîyeh and that
of the slightly earlier remains in northern
Syria in the Djebel A'la and Djebel Barisha.

There is no trace of the use of great stones.
The quadrated work seems to have been
executed in comparatively small blocks.
The lintels and jambs of doorways do not
compare in massiveness with those of the north.
The building material was of course of very
different character and had all to be
brought from a distance and these con-
siderations may have brought about the change.
It is not possible to say how much the arch
was used as the ruins are too fragmentary,
The ornament too is here very different from
that of the region further north. All signs of
classic style have disappeared. The profiles are
flat and uninteresting. The acanthus is never found.
The caps are crude and heavy. In a word the
ornament represents a period of degeneration toward
a pattern executed on a flat surface.

Notes and Questions

Nobody has written a note for this page yet

Please sign in to write a note for this page