. A dictionary of the Bible .. . ith thosethat are so. It is the more worthy of Iemaik asone of the great difficulties of the subject arisesfrom tiavellers too readily assuming that everycutting in the rock must be sepulchral. It maybe so in Egypt, but it certainly was not so atCyrene or Petra, where many of the excavationswere either temples or monastic establishments, andit certainly w;\s not universally the case at Jeru-salem, though our information is frequently tooscanty to enable us always to discriminate exactlyto which class the cutting in the rock may belong. The principal remaining a
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . ith thosethat are so. It is the more worthy of Iemaik asone of the great difficulties of the subject arisesfrom tiavellers too readily assuming that everycutting in the rock must be sepulchral. It maybe so in Egypt, but it certainly was not so atCyrene or Petra, where many of the excavationswere either temples or monastic establishments, andit certainly w;\s not universally the case at Jeru-salem, though our information is frequently tooscanty to enable us always to discriminate exactlyto which class the cutting in the rock may belong. The principal remaining architectural sepulchresmay be divided into three groups. First, those existing in the Valley of Jehoshaphat,and known popularly as the Tombs of Zechariah,of St. James, and of Absalom. Second, those known as the Tombs of the Judges,and the so-called Jewish tomb about a mile uoitliof the city. Third, that known as the Tombs of the Kings,about half a mile north of the Damascus Gate. Of the three tir»t-named tombs the most southein. if i No. 3.—So-called Tomb of Zechariah. is known as that ot Zechariah, a popular namewhich there is not even a shadow of traditionto justify. It consists ofa square solid basement,measuring 18 feet G incheseach way, and 20 feet highto the top of the each face are four Ionic columns be-tween antae, and these aresurmounted, not by an———-- Egyptian cornice, as is No. of styiobate Usually asserted, but by iabad. one of purely Assyrian type, such as is found atKhorsabad (Woodcut No. 4). As the Ionic or volutedorder came also from Assyria, this example is iu TOMB fact a more pure specimen of the Ionic order thanany found in Europe, where it always usedby the Greeks with a quasi-Doric cornice. Not-withstanding this, in the Ibrm of the volutes—theegg-and-dart moulding beneath, and every detail—it is so distinctly Konian that it is impossible toassume that it belongs to au earlier age than thatof their influence. Above the
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