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of the cella consisted of a [?] wall broken only by the doors leading witht the angle chamner which in turn may habe opened upon the southern portico. The plan of the interior is difficult to determine without extensive excavations which would be rendered very labourious by the [?] destruction of the building stones. It is apparent that, at least in one place, short walls projected from the side walls which terminated in half columns, very much in the style of the temple at Basaai. There are now remains of the partition walls dividing the cellar with compartments. These are constructed as wall flocks rather grossly laid and plausibly belonging to a period far earlier [?] than of the temple itself : they may belong [?] to the early [?] period [?] there are few other signs in this ruin.
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7 Details. The details show a mixture of what may be termed Phoenician massiveness and Persian ornament with a distinct style of Hellenistic art. The colossol dimentions of the crossing (?) suggest the megalithic remains at Ba'albek for many of the blocks are more than one third of the sizee of those well known megaliths. The (?) edges of these blocks are similar to those of the great blocks on the foundations of the temple of Jerusalem. The great freize of lion figures in relief is Persian in sentiment; but the strong (?) below it is a Greek form of cornice with corona and dentils though the spaces between the dentils are simple splay faces and the spacing is (?) according to the classic canon. (compare disarticulations of tomb of Darius) Within the temple, outside the South end and near the North end are capitals
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