A colonnaded highway ran straight through from north to south; two other streets crossed at right angles, and its chief public buildings, the Temple of the Sun and three other temples, two theatres and two public baths, stood near these three streets (fig.

10).

Again the evidence proves rectangular town-planning in broad outline; excavation alone can tell the rest.[37] [37] _Zeitschrift des deutschen Palastina-Vereins_, xxv (1902), plate 6; Badeker, _Palestine and Syria_ (1906), p.140.For the neighbouring Bostra, see p.

136.
[Illustration: FIG.10.

GERASA] In the towns just described a distinctive feature is the 'chess-board' pattern of streets and rectangular house-blocks.