The local houses at Harran incorporated materials from the ancient site. In this case, the house wall includes a fragment of an inscription. During the 1951 expedition Rice reconstructed the inscription from the citadel’s south east gate. Eleven fragments were found near the gate and a twelfth in the wall of a local house – which may be the fragment shown here. The inscription dated from 1059 AD and gave the names and titles of Mani’ ibn Shabib, the Numayrid emir of Harran. (MS 381321/1/101) © SOAS Library