"Ḥarrān of the Columns," receives this appellation from three noble Ionic columns which stand in the centre of the village. There is now no building connected with them, nor are the traces of any visible. They stand upon pedestals six feet high, and the total height to the top of the capital is about forty feet; the shafts measure eleven feet six inches in circumference. The stone is a black basalt, very hard but porous. In the streets and lanes of the village I observed large numbers of broken shafts and hewn stones, showing that some important structures once stood in this place.
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