Mon 21. [21 May 1900] Very good night and breakfasted at 8. Set off
with 'Ali, Ahmed a soldier the Mudir had sent me and explored all the
town and photographed. The cella of the temple is almost perfect, a
mosque in part of it. In the gardens palms, pomegranates flowering
and all sorts of fruit trees but the wind mostly blows the fruit off before it
ripens. The old parts of the outer wall have a considerable slope
inwards. I then went down to the single monumental column,
afterwards by myself all over the ruins photographing. In at 12 to
lunch. Not really hot and a cool wind. Read and wrote and off with
Ahmed towards 4 to the top of the castle. On the way we examined a
Tower tomb with a carved slab on it - the usual heads and this like
[small sketch] ornaments[?] and roll at the top with shallow wavy
bands and wreaths on it. Good climb up the rock and very fine view
across the desert from the top. At 5.30 went and bathed in the Sulphur
spring, most delicious.