ocr: certain of its constructional details particularly the method ofroofing the smaller chambers with flat slabs of stone resting on transverse arches, as is indicated by the provision of buttresses centrally in the cross walls) are Oriental, if not specifically Nabataean, and indicate a strong native tradition of architecture surviving side by side with the foreign fashions. We now come to the architecture of Roman Petra. The recent British expedition has confined itself to a study of two of the few surviving monuments of this period, the Qasr el-Bint temple and its triple gateway. The colonnaded ...
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