. The Philistines : their history and civilization. k, when he made his determined effort to paganize the Holy have no description of this building, which was already in ruinsin A. D. 33;3 ; but its situation seems to require a round or synnnetri-cally polygonal structuie, and the name dodecapylon suggests a twelve- ^ 2T|)077i/A,o<i5ts -^ap vn^pxfy, irfpi^tpKrjfxivot Svalv aroali dWj]\otacuT(pais, to St fxiaovavTOV T]V dva<pvaT]T<Jv KttSdipiov nal dvamaixivov eis , iixiv 5« koI dXKa rivd a rots(iScuAoiy iirptnfv, dOira 5e Trp&s ra ^ivupava vapd tjjv ilSo:Xo)xavCv fivaapd
. The Philistines : their history and civilization. k, when he made his determined effort to paganize the Holy have no description of this building, which was already in ruinsin A. D. 33;3 ; but its situation seems to require a round or synnnetri-cally polygonal structuie, and the name dodecapylon suggests a twelve- ^ 2T|)077i/A,o<i5ts -^ap vn^pxfy, irfpi^tpKrjfxivot Svalv aroali dWj]\otacuT(pais, to St fxiaovavTOV T]V dva<pvaT]T<Jv KttSdipiov nal dvamaixivov eis , iixiv 5« koI dXKa rivd a rots(iScuAoiy iirptnfv, dOira 5e Trp&s ra ^ivupava vapd tjjv ilSo:Xo)xavCv fivaapd t« koi dOtfiiTa. 112 THE SCHWEICH LECTURES, 1911 sided l)uil(ling. The Dome of the Kock (an octagon) may well havebeen built after this model; and the Pantheon, which has also beencompared with the building indicated by the account of Marcus, islikewise of the time of Hadrian. The Marneion, therefore, mighthave been erected under the auspices of that enthusiastic builder, orat least after the model of other buildings which he had left behind. Ficf. 5. Coins of (i;iza and Asbkeloa :—1. Coin of Gaza showing Temple ofMarna. 2. Coin of (iaza l)earing the figure and nameof lo, and a debased Plioeni-c-ian M, the symbolic initial of Mania. 3. Coin of Gaza bearing tlie figure andname of Minos. 4. Coin of (Jaza I)earing the initial of Mania. 5. Coin ofAshkeloiij with the sacred fishpond. G. Coin of Ashkelon, with figure ofAstarte. 7. Coin of Aslikelon, Avith figure bearing a dove: below^ a sea-monster. B. Coin of Ashkelon, with figure of a dove. him in Palestine. This would give a date for the break with thetradition of the old building. The sacred marbles miglit well havebeen some stones preserved from the old structure, and on that accountof peculiar sanctity. The rest of the acts of Por])hyrius do not concern us, though wemay note that there was a well in the courtyard of the Marneion, 1 ToT( uvofxa^ufxevov il ianv tvOua vpOfj fxla koX rpeis TiKayiot in avTrjs . . vapa Fa^aioiiro
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