. The Open court. ight on camel back. The price at which the workmen sold them,I was told, was a mejidi (less than a dollar) apiece. Happening to be in Sidon not long after these events, I heardthe news of the recent find, and lost no time in visiting the had also the good fortune to get sight of one of the inscriptions. THE REMAINS OF A PHOENICIAN TEMPLE. 69 As for the ruin which had been unearthed, it consisted, first, ofa portion of a massive wall from which the earth had been partlycleared away on both sides. This was a double wall (and thusabout seven feet in thickness), all of wh
. The Open court. ight on camel back. The price at which the workmen sold them,I was told, was a mejidi (less than a dollar) apiece. Happening to be in Sidon not long after these events, I heardthe news of the recent find, and lost no time in visiting the had also the good fortune to get sight of one of the inscriptions. THE REMAINS OF A PHOENICIAN TEMPLE. 69 As for the ruin which had been unearthed, it consisted, first, ofa portion of a massive wall from which the earth had been partlycleared away on both sides. This was a double wall (and thusabout seven feet in thickness), all of whose blocks were large, ofabout the same size, and nicely squared and fitted. It was foundto run east and west. Then there was the second wall, about fiftyyards further down the hill, in a garden, in which it formed thesupport of one terrace,—as it had probably served for generationspast. This, being parallel with the other, and consisting of exactlysimilar blocks, was evidently a part of the same building, which. Lower Wall (a Cane is Leaning Against One of the Stones). must have had the form of a huge square, or Thislower, or northern, wall was even more massive than its fellow,consisting apparently of three or more courses of stone through-out, and thus more than ten feet in thickness. It was in the coreof this lower wall that the inscribed stones were found. As for the inscription itself, it proved to be not the least im-portant part of the find. Reduced to its simplest form, it runs as 1 In the illustration which shows the whole hillside, the position of the upper wall is indi-cated by the arrow ; the lower wall is some distance below the modern house. Some idea of thegreat size of the building can thus be gained. 7° THE OPEN COURT. follows : Bod-Ashtart,1 King of Sidon, grandson of King Eshmun-azar, built this house for his god Eshmun. From the evidence ofvarious kinds which I was able to collect, it appeared that all fiveof the stones above mentioned bore t
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