Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . igh. In the inside there is an entrancehall 50 feet long and 40 wide, having in the centre acolumn 21 feet high and 6 feet in diameter, of a singleblock of limestone. Its capital is ornamented withlarge leaves, finely sculptured in stone, but not in anyarchitectural order; and resting on this capital are thesprings of four arches, w
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . igh. In the inside there is an entrancehall 50 feet long and 40 wide, having in the centre acolumn 21 feet high and 6 feet in diameter, of a singleblock of limestone. Its capital is ornamented withlarge leaves, finely sculptured in stone, but not in anyarchitectural order; and resting on this capital are thesprings of four arches, which support four domegforminof the ceilinsj of tlie room. It has been Ro-manized by four white marble columns which adornthe doorway. The sides of the hall are built of hugeblocks of limestone, cut with the peculiar Jewishpanel; the term bevelling is applied to the Jewislirebatement, which is a chamiel cut a half-inch, lessor more, deep all around the edge of a block on thesame level plane as the face, and never slanted orbevelled. Fj-om this entrance hall a flight of nine stone-steps(in the midst of wliich stands a stone pillar oval, 6feet high by 4 feet in diameter) leads up to a pas-sage 259 feet long, which is divided by piers, pillars^ m %s m w u m ml.
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