hat diminutive hollows werescooped out of the rock by the quarrymen, and filled with oil to dip their wicks, whichare still visible. These wicks were drawn out so as to light up the gallery, enablingthe men to see the perpendicular splits made in the blocks to be quarried. The trailmade by the… … courses. Our illustration (Fig. in) shows this method, whichwas in vogue thousands of years ago, evidenced by multitudinous examples in the royalquarries, a methodstill practised aboutJerusalem. Here,then, the nature andlie of the rock did notdetermine the heightand length of thestones, for no…
Hittites · Art · Jews
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