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

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

PLATE XLVI.

PLAN AND SECTION OF THE CŒNACULUM; OF THE SO-CALLED TOMB OF DAVID; AND OF THE UNDERGROUND WORKS OF MOUNT SION.

• 1. Staircase leading to the Upper Court.
• 2. Upper Court.
• 3. Mohammedan Chambers.
• 4. Lower Court.
• 5. Passage to the Tomb of David.
• 6. Mohammedan Chapel, dedicated to the Tomb of David.
• 7. Representation of the Sarcophagus of David.
• 8. Cœnaculum.
• 9. Staircase leading to the Tomb of David.
• 10. Place of the Mohammedan Priest.
• 11. Staircase leading to upper Chambers.
• 12. Chambers.
• 13. Underground Works of Mount Sion, in front of the Tomb of David.
• 14. Subterranean Passage covered with stone and earth.
• 15. Staircase leading to underground Works.

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• S. Conventional Signs.
  • a. Ancient Wall.
  • b. Wall of the time of S. Helena, or of the Crusaders.
  • c. Modern Arab Wall.
  • d. Rock.
  • e. Place covered with earth.
  • f. Christian Tombs.
  • g. Underground Works.

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