the Hauran in Syria, where timber is scarce, the doors were made of stone, and one measuring 1.63 by 0.79 m is in the British Museum; the band on the meeting stile shows that it was one of the leaves of a double door. At Kuffeir, near Bostra in Syria, Burckhardt found stone doors, 2.74 to 3.048 m high, being the entrance doors of the town. In Etruria, many stone doors are referred to by Dennis.

Ancient Greek and Roman