History of Dor. 9 



Guerin' mentions two mosques, both partly in ruins in his time, 

 one of which contained several ancient granite columns. With the 

 increasing prosperity of the town, a number of good-looking gran- 

 aries have risen near the seashore'. There is a well northeast of 

 the village^ Many of the inhabitants are sailors and fishermen; 

 for the rest, the industries of the town are mainly agricultural and 

 pastoral. In the fields to the east and the south grain is raised, 

 part of which is exported in small coastwise sailing vessels*. As is 

 usually the case in Palestine, the property of the natives of Tantiira 

 consists chiefly in herds of cattle and goats\ The inhabitants share 

 the greedy avarice and the thieving propensities so universal in 

 that land*. On the whole, Tantura is a typical Palestinian coast 

 town. 



A few minutes to the north of the modern village lie scattered 

 about the ruins of ancient Dor. These ruins^ consist of a mound 

 covered with debris, with a fallen tower to the south; the remains 

 of a double harbor and of a colonnaded building adjacent to the 

 more northerly port; a large cistern now called El-Hannaneh; and 

 an ancient causeway leading north and south to the east of the 

 town. Rock-cut tombs are also to be found in the neighborhood. 



The most conspicuous object to former travellers was the ruined 

 tower, visible at every point from Carmel to Caesarea, perhaps 

 dating from the period of the Crusades^ which stood on a low 

 rocky promontory to the south of the mound. South of this pro- 

 montory, in the direction of the modern town, is a sandy beach and 



1 Sam. 2:305 f. (1874-75); the Chevalier d'Arvieux, c. 1700 (in Labat, Merk- 

 wurdige Nachrichten, II. pp. 11-13), states that the inhabitants had no 

 mosques; so Buckingham {Trav. in Pal, p. 123) in 1821; writers after 

 Guerin (e.g., Pal. Ex. Fund. Mem., Baed., etc.) make no mention of a 

 mosque. 



2 Schumacher in P.E.F.Q., 1887, p. 84. 

 ^S.W.PMem.ll,p.S. 



4 Sir C. Wilson, Picturesque Palestine, pp. 115 f.; S.W.P. Mem. II, pp. 3, 

 35; P.E.F.Q., 1887, p. 84. 



5 Sir C. Wilson, ibid. 



6 Van de Velde, Narrat. I, 338; Buckingham, Travels, p. 123; the Cheva- 

 lier d'Arvieux (in Labat, MerkwiXrdige Nachrichten, III, pp. 74-82). 



' S.W.P. Mem. II, p. 7; Guer., Sam. 2:306 ff. 

 . 8 Murray, Handbook (1875), p. 358; Em. Bib. s. v. Dor; S.W.P. Mem. II, 

 p. 8; P.E.F.Q., 1873, pp. 99f.— It is easily possible that most of these ruins 

 are from a period later than that of the Crusades. 



