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A JOURNEY IN THE VALLEY OF THE UPPER EUPHRATES.
the town. A short distance south-east of the site there are remains
of an aqueduct, of which five arches are still standing. Above the
modern village, near the reservoir, there are remains of earthworks,
which possibly represent the site of a small fort which guarded the
water-supply. There are also some foundations of a building outside
the north wall, but not enough of it is preserved to indicate its
character.
In the course of our stay we succeeded in finding, besides the
legionary tiles and a considerable number of unimportant Byzantine
epitaphs, seven Latin inscriptions. Of these two are mere fragments,
and another, a milestone, is so weather-worn as to be wholly illegible.
With regard to the famous bronze head which was found at Sadagh
MOSQUE AT IMVRIK (NORTH DOOR).
and is now in the British Museum, we could obtain but little informa
tion. We were shown the place where it was found; the spot is within
the walls of the site, and the man who turned it up was at the time of
our visit still alive, though at the point of death. From the accounts
of the oldest inhabitants, it appears that a thorough search was made
at the time when the head and hand were discovered, and they all
agreed in saying that nothing else was found, so that the reports which
have been in circulation to the effect that the body of the statue is still
m possession of the natives of the place, are probably without any
foundation. Exactly the same account was given by one of the beys at
Kemakb, the government engineer of the district, and our Khavji at
Erzingan.
I rom Sadagh we made short excursions along two of the valleys
which converge on the village from the west, the valley of the Lyons,
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