"Procéde Poitevin" Mission de Phenicie dirigee Par M. Ernest Renan, Planches executees sous la Direction de M. Thobois, Architecte, Imprimee Imperiale, Paris, 1864, pl 58 Made during excavations and research done by Ernest Renan in Syria in 1860-61 during the occupation by the French army. Julien Thobois, who was the assistant to the famous French architect Henri Labrouste, traveled to Syria with Renan to make architectural studies that were later referenced by Labrouste.