The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . testify to itsspuriousness, the modern cave is convicted by its form, by the colour of itsmaterial, by its size, and its site, all together. It is square, Macariuss wasround; it is a square of 6 feet 9 inches;* Macariuss was a circle of about 12feet in diameter; it is open at top, Macariuss was arched; it can hold five * Mr. Scoles, an unquestionable authority, gives the dimensions as 6 feet8 inches by 6 feet 1 inch, and says more than half of this chamber, on thenorth side, is occupied by the tomb. Consequently th
The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . testify to itsspuriousness, the modern cave is convicted by its form, by the colour of itsmaterial, by its size, and its site, all together. It is square, Macariuss wasround; it is a square of 6 feet 9 inches;* Macariuss was a circle of about 12feet in diameter; it is open at top, Macariuss was arched; it can hold five * Mr. Scoles, an unquestionable authority, gives the dimensions as 6 feet8 inches by 6 feet 1 inch, and says more than half of this chamber, on thenorth side, is occupied by the tomb. Consequently the standing room must be6 feet 8 inches by less than 3 feet in width. Paschasius Radbertus says threepalms, w^hich is but little more than two feet. DUBLIN UNIV. MAG. 361 persons,* Macariuss could hold nine; it is of grey limestone, Macariuss wasof mottled stone, red and white. It bears from Calvary north-west; Macariuss,as shewn on Arculfs plan, due west. Every circumstance shews it to besuppositious—a forgery of a forgery, fabricated in an impossible place.(pp. 273-275.)t. Tlie Holy Sepulchre. t I bow not, therefore, in the gorgeous pileWhere golden lamps irradiate the gloom, * Four is the proper number, and they must pack close.(? The Church of Constantine was dedicated in . 335Was burnt by the Persians, under Chosroes . . 614 rebuilt by Modestus 629 destroyed by Emir el Omra, in time of Christopher, Patriarch of Jerusalem ..... 936 burnt by the Fatimite Khalifs .... 969 rebuilt, and afterwards destroyed again utterly and purposely, by Khalif el Hakim . . .1010 rebuilt by Monomachus .... rh\ 1048 And burnt, ultimately . . , . 1808 And rebuilt 1810 X Favoured by the publishers of Bartletts Wnlhs in Jerusalem, and Virtue. BB 2 - ;3()2 ON THE ALLEGED SITE OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE. And monks their votaries and tliemselves beguileTo think they worshij^ at their tSavioiirs rites like theirs let annual crowds illumeTheir odorous censers, scattering far and w
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