. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . thatthe pig was the animal sacrificed in these rites (QS. 1. 118; Macalister,Side-Lights from the Mound of Gezer, p. 4U).* See below, p. 83 ; also p. 67. B Vs- 04. 112f. G 1 52 CANAAN AS KNOWN THROUGH EXCAVATION the rubbing-stone being the variety in Whether the peoplewho inhabited these caves had any connexion with the Horites, thepie-Semitic population of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 20-30), is very It is true, caves in the mountain-sides were used as dwellingsin Petra to a much later period: but there is at present absolutelyno evide
. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . thatthe pig was the animal sacrificed in these rites (QS. 1. 118; Macalister,Side-Lights from the Mound of Gezer, p. 4U).* See below, p. 83 ; also p. 67. B Vs- 04. 112f. G 1 52 CANAAN AS KNOWN THROUGH EXCAVATION the rubbing-stone being the variety in Whether the peoplewho inhabited these caves had any connexion with the Horites, thepie-Semitic population of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 20-30), is very It is true, caves in the mountain-sides were used as dwellingsin Petra to a much later period: but there is at present absolutelyno evidence connecting the Gezer caves with the Horites. Severalother caves which had been originally Troglodyte dwellings were alsodiscovered in different parts of Gezer, which, as they were used after-wards for other purposes, will be referred to In 1907, while a new trench was being dug on the west hill, justwest of the city gate, there was found, when the rock was reached,a large entrance to what at first appeared to be a pool; but upon. The Rubbing-stone From Tell el-Mutesellim, p. 04. The oval-shaped stone in the middlehas a flat under-surface, which is rubbed to and fro by hand over therectangular table of stone underneath, on which the corn is spread. The ordinary rotary grinder, or handmill, consisted—as it consists stillin Palestine—of two circular slabs of stone, 18 inches or 2 feet in diameter,the lower one being fixed on the ground, and the upper one being turnedround upon it by a woman (Exod. xi. 5), or two women (Matt. xxiv. 41),kneeling or sitting beside it. the explorers penetrating further, it was found to be the entranceto a long and remarkable subterranean gallery or tunnel, descendingby eighty steps, and leading ultimately to a large cave containing aspring of water. This tunnel was altogether 219 feet long and forthe greater part of its length 23 feet high mid 12 feet 10 inches 1 QS. 04. lU3f. 8 The heading The Morites of chap. ii. in Mr. Macalistera B
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