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Maʾarrâtā

Tombs. The great majority of the tombs in Maʾarrâtā
would seem to have been evacuated below the
surface and to have filled up; for the natives
are constantly making rich finds of glass
and pottery by excavations.

But there are ruins of no less than five
pyramidal tombs with large central chambers.

Of of these, to the N.E. of the ruins has several
courses of basalt which form a dado to the
wall, the rest of which is of limestone.
Its mouldings are of unusual form, more nearly
related to the East than the West.

Another pyramidal tomb shows an arched
vestabule before the square chamber. In fact
most of these tombs seem to have had porches
or vestibules of some sort, either arched, or in the
form of distyle in antis, or a simpler tetrastyle porch.