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(15, Ill 21, Photo)

il-'Anz is a small inhabited village on the west slope of a
ridge on the northeast of Ḥalbân. The site does
not indicate that the tower was a large one in ancient
times and it may have been nothing more than a
group of private residences.

House 542 A.D. (Insc. 894) One of these is
sufficiently preserved to show that it was a house
of considerable size; the main portal of its vestibule,
the outer wall of the north side of the house and
foundations of outer walls are in situ, and are enough
to show that this house was of the plan of the
larger houses at iṭ-Ṭûbā and was built about a
court. Some of the inhabited portions of the present
house were undoubtedly built upon old foundations.
There are some good late Doric capitals within
the court and other fragments. This house was
built in the fifth century and is, therefore, one of
the earlier buildings of the il-'Alā. The date is plainly
written on the great lintel of the main portal, and
reads 542 A.D. The jambs of the portal are
quite plain.