rved perhapsas model to the architect in building the tombs of Hyrcanus,Absalom, and Zachariah. Some have seen in the rock-hewn memorial of Siloam the 1 Niches cut in the wall are frequently met with in the East ; sometimes they areonly a stone deep, which was left out by the builder, to hold a… … Sepulchral Architecture. 283 shrine built by Solomon for the Egyptian princess ; a conjecturescarcely borne out by its inner details, which are markedly thoseof a tomb. It is not easy to imagine how religious rites couldhave been performed in a gloomy chamber, to which access wasonly obtained by a…
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