, suchas exist in abundance towards the Syrian coast, notably oppositeAradus.1 If possessed of ornament, it could not well be otherthan that seen on the Siloam monolith. The mediocrity of theIsraelitish memorial may perhaps be explained by the veto putupon ancestral worship by the priests and the… … Fig. 193.— Tomb in the Valley of Hinnom. De Saulcy, Voyage. Atlas, Plate XLI1I. the monumental character of the Punic model, itself but a reflexof the grander Egyptian type ; and that, unlike these, it was undis-tinguished by a shaft sunk down from the top of the rock, coveringit with a slab, an…
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