. The Open court. it proved to be not the least im-portant part of the find. Reduced to its simplest form, it runs as 1 In the illustration which shows the whole hillside, the position of the upper wall is indi-cated by the arrow ; the lower wall is some distance below the modern house. Some idea of thegreat size of the building can thus be gained. 7° THE OPEN COURT. follows : Bod-Ashtart,1 King of Sidon, grandson of King Eshmun-azar, built this house for his god Eshmun. From the evidence ofvarious kinds which I was able to collect, it appeared that all fiveof the stones above mentioned bore t
. The Open court. it proved to be not the least im-portant part of the find. Reduced to its simplest form, it runs as 1 In the illustration which shows the whole hillside, the position of the upper wall is indi-cated by the arrow ; the lower wall is some distance below the modern house. Some idea of thegreat size of the building can thus be gained. 7° THE OPEN COURT. follows : Bod-Ashtart,1 King of Sidon, grandson of King Eshmun-azar, built this house for his god Eshmun. From the evidence ofvarious kinds which I was able to collect, it appeared that all fiveof the stones above mentioned bore the same inscription, in some-what varying form. That is, the King had caused a number of thestones of his new edifice to be suitably inscribed, and then hadbuilt them—like so many Babylonian stamped bricks, or the filledcorner-stone of a modern public building—into one or more of thewalls; not for men of his generation to read,—for the inscribedfaces were all hidden from view, as I was repeatedly assured by. One of the Inscribed Stones. those who found them,—but for his god Eshmun and for pos-terity. This great building was a temple, then, and in its day it musthave been an imposing edifice. It occupied an almost ideal site,standing just at the turn of the hill, in full view of the sea, and inthe one spot near Sidon where a comparatively unobstructed out-look eastward is to be had. Just below, and in plain sight, is therushing river; on the other side, perhaps two hundred yards away, 1 Sometimes written Bad-Ashtart, which is (probably) the original and more correct formof the name. We know, however, from the Greek transliteration that the pronunciation BoA was current. The meaning of the name is Member (branch) of Astarte. THE REMAINS OF A PH(ENICIAN TEMPLE. 7 I is a magnificent spring—a rarity in that region. The cape wherethe present city of Sidon stands is just hidden from sight by a spurof the mountain. The view toward the East is especially fine, in-cluding the
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