The Open court . was eflrected at the temple, and thatthe shrine on his coins is the restored building. But it is at the Odyssey, Bk. 6 (VIII), 1. 362, and Hymn in Venerem, 1. 58. ° Herodotus, Bk. I, Ch. 105: I have inquired and find the Temple at As-calon is the most ancient of all the temples of this goddess, for the one inCyprus (Paphos) as the Cyprians themselves admit, was built in imitationof it. (Ascalon^40 miles from Jerusalem. Cf. Judges, i. 18; xiv. 10; alsocuneiform inscriptions of Sennacherib, 3d year.) Pausanius, VHI, 5. Cf. Dion Cassius, Bk. 23 and Obermiiller, Dielnsel Cypcrn, p
The Open court . was eflrected at the temple, and thatthe shrine on his coins is the restored building. But it is at the Odyssey, Bk. 6 (VIII), 1. 362, and Hymn in Venerem, 1. 58. ° Herodotus, Bk. I, Ch. 105: I have inquired and find the Temple at As-calon is the most ancient of all the temples of this goddess, for the one inCyprus (Paphos) as the Cyprians themselves admit, was built in imitationof it. (Ascalon^40 miles from Jerusalem. Cf. Judges, i. 18; xiv. 10; alsocuneiform inscriptions of Sennacherib, 3d year.) Pausanius, VHI, 5. Cf. Dion Cassius, Bk. 23 and Obermiiller, Dielnsel Cypcrn, p. 150. 462 THE OPEN COURT. same time doubtful whether he would have made the restorations inany but the pattern of the temple as it had stood so many yearsbefore the mishap. Obviously too, if he had ventured to remodel thetemple in any but the ancient type, whose ancientness was its chiefrecommendation to authenticity, he would have used the style ofarchitecture practised by Rome itself, not the (to him) foreign. Fig. I. COLD liAS-RELIEF FROM Mycenae, fig. 423. native type of some other land. As we see it on his coins thetemple is certainly neither Greek nor Roman but of a genius all itsfPhanician) own. This type of temple is further authenticated as ancient by thegolden models of a shrine found in the royal graves of Mycenae THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON. 463 (Fig-, i). They are apparently very early, at least as early as thetwelfth century B. C. and approximate the Paphos representationsso closely that it seems legitimate to conjecture that the Paphosshrine is their original, existing practically unchanged until thetime of Augustuss renovation. Therefore, whether the Roman coins we have represent the old*or the new temple it makes little difference, since we are justifiedby its type in tracing back to Phoenicia as its original source. These coins are no two alike, but the variations are not funda-mental and are easily explicable as due to variations of skill, ord
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