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   ocr: passed through many vicissitudes during the course ofi its life, and not all of these have yet been worked out; at one stage in particular its long western outer wall was destroyed and rebuilt on a slightly different line from that of the original wall. The external appearance of the building is distinguished; the walls (which still stand at a height of more than three meters above the original floor) are of well-laid masonry, dressed with the fine diagonal tooling that seems to be typical of Nabataean work. Inside, however, the story is different. The inner faces ofthe main walls, and the cro ...