el-kubbah

Updated: May 13, 2025

Sketches of paths wind up the western flank; but upon this line, we were assured, no ruins are seen save a few pits. So we rounded the block by the north, following the broad Wady to the Mayat el-Kubbah, water-pits in the sand whose produce had not been libelled when described as salt, scanty, and stinking.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

The track then turned up a short, broad branch-Wady, running from south to north, and falling into the left bank of the "Dome Valley:" a few yards brought us to a halt at the ruins of El-Kubbah. We were perplexed by the shallow conical pits in the porphyritic trap, to the east and west of the "Dome Hill;" the ground is too porous for rain cisterns, and the depth is not sufficient for quarrying.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

Amongst them is not included the gem of our discovery, the classical shrine, known as Gasr Gurayyim Sa'id, nor the minor ateliers, El-Kubbah, Aba'l-Gezaz, and the remains upon the Marwat ridge.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

However, at 5.10 a.m. we struck north, over a low divide of trap hill, by a broad and evidently made road, and regained the Wady el-Kubbah: here it is a pleasant spectacle rich in trees, and vocal with the cooing of the turtle-dove.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

We had made up our minds for a good long march; and I was not a little vexed when, after half an hour, we were led out of the Wady el-Kubbah, whose head, our proper line, lies to the north, into its eastern influent, the Wady el-Dasnah.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2