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not so good as the temple walls. The other walls-
those of the conventual buildings are rather crude
work in roughly quadrated stonework and are
very ruinous. In the west wall there is
a good Nabataean inscription recording the
setting up of a column? in the 7th year of
the Emperor Hadrian. This is the latest of
known dated Nabataean inscriptions. The
temple was not in Nabataean style; but in the
classic style of Hadrian's reign as may be seen
from the bases of the [two] antae which are in situ, and
from a few fragments of mouldings etc.

I believe that this is the temple of the 'Anz insc. wh.
records the restoration of Paganism under Julian.
This insc. is known to have been imported, and is said
to have come from Kfêr, about 20 min from Dêr il-Meshḳûḳ
There are no remains of a temple in any of the
surrounding towns. It is possible that this stone was
carried to Kfêr when the church was built after
the restoration of Xtian worship, or the natives may have
forgotten. Statue .77 high from N. of temple.