The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . ian, offers acomplete parallel. Like that of Solomon, it faced theoast, and had two cellce and,a pronaos. The interior wasenriched with gold work. Before the door stood a brazenaltar within a walled court. The walled court is a con-stant feature in the Phoenician and Syrian temples, knomito us from their remains or from coins, and the goldendecorations, the portico, and the bra
The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . ian, offers acomplete parallel. Like that of Solomon, it faced theoast, and had two cellce and,a pronaos. The interior wasenriched with gold work. Before the door stood a brazenaltar within a walled court. The walled court is a con-stant feature in the Phoenician and Syrian temples, knomito us from their remains or from coins, and the goldendecorations, the portico, and the brazen altar appear in theancient temple of Byblus and in other Phoenician shrines( S, Nos. 2, 143). The chief motives in the of Solomons temple were the palm tree andthe cliciub. The former is one of the commonestPluvnirian , and the Phirnician associations of thelatter are clear fnmi xxviii. The cherub, in fact, isonly a variety of the sphinx, ami the way in which thepalm and winged animal fignrcs were cniiibincd in, Se€ T. i. I>on:iM>.on, Arehttectura JViimismatiLa (Lnihloii, l.*59);lU-nao,aVAsion rf? l*liln\jctc ; atul Cltii-iez, Uist. tfi: l\li(, vol. iii.^. Phoenician decoration is shown in a fragment of alabaste?preserved in the Louvre and here figured (fig. 1) afterPerrot (op. dt., iil. 131). Two cherubs \vith outstretchedwings stood in the ^^•^iT—«<7X~-^1 adytum to form a .^rty^^\^^^^^^^^it^^ baldachin over the ^.^J^^X^s^X^^JyH ark. Baldachins ^^^^£S£i^^ over the image or S^^jJjJjl^^^/^fiAfJijfjJJAsymbol of the deityexisted in othertemples of thenorthern Semites(Donaldson, o^.ct*.,pp. 73, 76 sq., 99),and in many Phoe-nician works of art(, on the stele ofByblus) the figureorsymbolof adeityisovershadowed bythe winged disk(an Assyrian sym-bol of godhead) ar-ranged as a sort ofcanopy (M^nant, Glypliqut Oriental, ii. 2S1, 238). The adytum of the temple was a cube of 20 cubits eacSway; the outer chamber was of
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