Amongst The Many Private Houses
A Palace May Be Distinguished, Surrounded By A Low Portico, At Which
Terminates The Causeway Leading From The Arch.
At half an hour’s
distance to the S.W. of Bokatur, are ruins resembling the former in
extent and structure.
I saw several houses of which the front was
supported by columns, of a smaller size than those of the palace at
Bokatur. This place is now called Immature, at three quarters of an hour
to the W. of it, are other similar ruins of a town called Filtire, which
I did not see. The two latter places are now inhabited by some poor
Kurdine families. The style of building which I observed in the houses
of these ruined cities approaches more to the European than the Asiatic
taste. The roofs are somewhat inclined, and the windows numerous, and
large, instead of being few and small, as in Turkish houses. The walls,
most of which are still remaining, are for the greatest part without
ornament, [p.646] from one foot to about one foot and a half thick, and
built of calcareous squared stones, like Deir Samaan. The pillars which
are still to be seen in some of the ruined buildings are none of them
more than fifteen feet high. Their capitals, like those of the columns
in the Deir Samaan, are rude and unfinished; if any order is discernible
it is a corrupted Corinthian. The neighbourbood of these towns, at least
for five miles round, presents nothing but an uneven plain, thickly
covered with barren rocks, which rise to the height of two or three feet
above the surface.
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