Jerusalem Explored, Volume 2—Plates / Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with Numerous Illustrations Consisting of Views, Ground Plans and Sections

by Ermete Pierotti

• 1. Mount of Olives.
• 2. Mount Viri-Galilæi.
• 3. Mosque of the Ascension of Jesus Christ.
• 4. Arab Tower.
• 5. Mount of Offence.
• 6. Place where Jesus wept over Jerusalem.
• 7. Mosque el-Aksa.
• 8. Minaret of the Mogarabins.
• 9. Mosque of Abu-Bekr: Wall of the period of the Crusades.
• 10. Arab Ruins.
• 11. The Bridge, according to Dr. Robinson.
• 12. Tyropœon Valley.

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E. Pierotti, Photo. & Del^t—R. M. Bryson, Lith.
Cambridge. Deighton, Bell & C^o—London. Bell & Daldy.
Day & Son, Lith^rs to the Queen.

PLATE XXII.

WAILING-PLACE OF THE JEWS. A PORTION OF THE
ANCIENT WALL OF THE TEMPLE ENCLOSURE.

This Wall is of the date of Herod the Great, and is the best specimen of the Masonry of that period to be found in Jerusalem. The Jews come to pray and weep before it every Friday.

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