. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . The Cedars of Lebanon.—(From Ayres Treasury of Bible Knowledge.) 156 CEL CEN which has teen described, is found in Oriental andN. African dwellings of late and modern times. Por-ter describes the ceilings of houses at Damascus asdelicately painted. Many of the rooms in the Palaceof the Moors at the Alhambra were ceiled and orna-mented with the richest geometrical patterns. Ar-chitecture ; Carving ; Hodse ; Palace ; Temple,. Panelled celling from house in Cairo.—(Lane, Modern Egyptians.) Cclo-syri-a [sol-] (L. Coele-v/ria, , = hollo
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . The Cedars of Lebanon.—(From Ayres Treasury of Bible Knowledge.) 156 CEL CEN which has teen described, is found in Oriental andN. African dwellings of late and modern times. Por-ter describes the ceilings of houses at Damascus asdelicately painted. Many of the rooms in the Palaceof the Moors at the Alhambra were ceiled and orna-mented with the richest geometrical patterns. Ar-chitecture ; Carving ; Hodse ; Palace ; Temple,. Panelled celling from house in Cairo.—(Lane, Modern Egyptians.) Cclo-syri-a [sol-] (L. Coele-v/ria, , = hollow Syria), an English form of the namegiven by the Greeks, after Alexanders time, to theremarkable valley or hollow between the two moun-tain-ranges of Libanus(or Lebanon) and Antilibanus,stretching from latitude 33 20 to 34° 40, nearlyone hundred miles, and containing the celebratedcity of Heliopolis or Baalbek, the rivers Orontes andLitany, &c. The term was also used in a muchwider sense to include the inhabited tract (in whichwas Damascus) E. of the Antilibanus range to thedesert; and then further on that side of Jordan,through Trachonitis and Perea, to Idumea and theborders of Egypt. In the Apocrypha there is fre-quent mention of Cclosyria in a somewhat vaguesense, nearly = Syria (1 Esd. ii. 17, 24, 27, iv. 48,vi. 29, vii. 1, viii. G7 ; 1 Mc. x. 09 ; 2 Me. iii. 5, 8,iv. 4, viii. 8, x. 11). Aven 1; Coslesyria ; Plain 2 ;Valley 4. Ccnchrc-a [senkre-al
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