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V
Umm Ḳoṣêr. From Iἡât we rode to Umm Ḳoṣêr, a
small ruin composed of 6 or 7 houses of good
quality, a well built tower and a number of
poorer structures, probably stables and enclosures
for cattle. The village seems to have been a
collection of farm houses of the better class, with
the usual watch tower.

V
Karaàh, immediately to the south of the above, is a
larger ruin, *uninhabited, but still employed
by shepherds for the shelter of cattle. The buildings
are almost all stables or combined dwellings
and stables, and all are built of roughly quadrated
masonry. Of these latter is of a type which I
had not noticed before; it is completely preserved.
Arched cisterns of unusual size, well built.

V
B'ât. This is a small ruined village on the top of a tell
of the same name. It was comprised originally of
houses of the better class, but has been completely
destroyed by the stone masons of Salchat. An inscr.
in GK. from here by [Petú/Peter] is dated 453 A.D. Streets and
Foundations of small Cl. temple. Roman mouldings. Stone doors.