Note 261 — Chapter VI · MAKROKOSMOS
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
Pliny records that this region was rich in temples. It is probable that the type of the transept-basilica—i.e., with the entrance in one of the long sides—which is found in Hauran and is distinctly marked in the tranverse direction of the altar space of St. Paul Without at Rome, is derived from a South Arabian archetype. (For the Hauran type of church see Ency. Brit., XI Ed., Vol. II, p. 390; and for St. Paul Without, Vol. III, p. 474.—Tr.