leaving the hilltop ruin, "Khirbet el-Sheikh Madkour", at 11:20 we descend to the east in the valley. At 11:25 [AM, I examine other ruins, called "Khirbet A'id el-Miah". Sixty toppled houses in the "wadi" formed a village that still existed in the Muslim period, as by the remains of a mosque there observed. In antiquity, the ruins that cover the plateau of the hill of "Sheikh Madkour" and which extend in the valley were probably one and the same city, divided into two parts, the upper part and the lower part.