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Ḳunbus
11 Ill 15
March 14, 1905 Church Post - Black Basalt found placed in
door entrance to yard at S. front of W. Kubab house at (blank)
[Illustration, Church Post Sides #1, #2, #4, Kubab.]
Side opp #1 plain
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Butler quote: " Then turning to the southwest we reached Kunbus in half an hour. This is a village of settled Bedawin. Here is a mosque built of more ancient materials ; but the most interesting find was a chancel-post with an interesting relief carved upon it. This was the figure of a man standing upon the top of a slender column, a pillar-hermit no doubt, perhaps the holy Simeon himself. The work was crude, the figure drawn much as a child would draw, and almost as high as the column on which it stood ; but it was interesting to us as the only bit of sculpture of its kind we had discovered thus far in Syria."