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Salkad Ancient Salchu seems to have been
completely destroyed in the Middle Ages in the
building of the great castle and the mosque. If any
of the ancient buildings buildings survived this period, they
have been torn down in the construction of the
modern town. The castle and the mosque are
constructed entirely of ancient material, both
contain many inscriptions and many details of
architecture. It is interesting to find there
are more fragments of Nabataean architecture
than of the classic architecture of Rome. The most
important among these are 2 capitals, like those
of the temple at Sîʿ in the entrance to the castle, 2 cap's
like the inscribed Nabataean capital in Sawet il-Khidi
and fragments of the jambs and lintels of portals
some in the castle and some in the wall of a house
about halfway up to the castle on the E. Slope.

It would seem as if Greco-Roman art did not
extend as far as Sulcha. Although it flourished
at il-Mushennef and as near as Būsân .