ined table-stones, and seem to favour the supposition thatsimilar holes were joined and connected with a ledge or troughsunk below them, which may have received oil, water, or blood(Fig. 200).l More interesting, however, than any yet discoveredis the huge single specimen or semi-dolmen of Amman,… … Fig. 200.—Dolmen. Hesbon. Conder, Htth and Moab, p. 292. evidently scooped for receiving libations or small offerings.2 Thename, too, given by the Arabs to such monuments indicates theiroriginal purpose. Thus the large group of Umm Zaweitîneh is known as mother of the small olive-trees, though no…
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