[28] Oppenheim thought it was the end of a sarcophagus, but Pognon’s guide climbed into the upper chamber and found it to be nothing but a block of stone closing the entrance. [29] For the cyborium tomb, see Heisenburg: _Grabeskirche und Apostelkirche_, Vol. I. ch. xvi. [30] A photograph of the fourth, the Ziareh of Khoros at Cyrrhus, was published by Chapot in _Le Tour du Monde_, April 8, 1905, p. 162. [31] Mylasa: published by the Dilettanti Society; Tripoli: _Nouvelles Archives des Missions_, Tome XII. fas. 1; Dana: De Vogüé, _La Syrie Centrale_, plate 78. [32] Tomb of Absalom, Jerusalem. [33] Gereme: Rott, _Kleinasiatische Denkmäler_, p. 171; El Bârah: De Vogüé, _op. cit._ pl. 75. [34] M. Cumont’s monuments are of this type and I have seen a fine example at Barâd in N. Syria, also as yet unpublished except for a photograph given by me in _The Desert and the Sown_, p. 287. [35] Maden Sheher: published by Sir W. Ramsay and myself in _The Thousand and One Churches_, p. 230. [36] The name which has been suggested for the site is Baisampse, a place mentioned by Ptolemy. There are a considerable number of cut stones on the mound near the village. [37] It was re-copied by Pognon and published by him in _Inscrip. de la Mésopotamie_, p. 82. The similarity between some of the characters in the two inscriptions is striking. [38] It appears in the extreme right-hand top corner of his Fig. 22, _Inschrif. aus Syrien und Mesopot_. [39] I could not reconcile the topography here with Kiepert’s map. He marks a northern tower, which he calls Nesheib (doubtless my Neshabah) and places there the Mazâr of Sultan ’Abdullah. He has a second tower further to the south-east, and finally the castle itself. The second tower is non-existent, or else it represents the minaret in the castle. The only mazâr which I saw or heard mentioned is that of Sultan Selîm, a small modern building between Neshabah and the castle. [40] It resembles the tower tombs at Irzî, which will be described later. [41] This is Abu’l Fidâ’s account, ed. Reinaud, p. 277. He wrote in A.D. 1321. Yâḳût, a century earlier, gives the same story. [42] Quoted by Ritter, _Erdkunde_, Vol. X. p. 241. [43] Ainsworth believed this to be the site of Benjamin of Tudela’s Jewish settlement (_Euphrates Expedition_, Vol. I. p. 269), and he speaks of a monastic ruin here. [44] It is so described in his map. [45] Sachau thought that Ḥaraglah was of Hellenistic origin (_Reise in Syrien und Mesopotamien_, p. 245); Sarre believes that it may be Parthian, and the circular outer fortification gives colour to the suggestion (_Zeitschr. der Gesell. für Erdkunde zu Berlin_, 1909, No. 7). [46] Sachau (_op. cit._ p. 243) gives the inscription, and my copy tallied with his.