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

• Fig. 1. Plan of the Tombs of the Kings.
  • a. b. Entrance of Vestibule.
  • c. Entrance.
  • x. y. Groove in which the chain worked to move the stone closing the entrance,
  • x. Place where the end of the chain was drawn out in order to raise the stone.
  • y. u. Position of the stone when the entrance was closed.
• Fig. 2. Inner stone door.
  • n. Stone support of the door.
• Fig. 3. The stone used in closing the entrance of the Tomb, with the grooves in which it and the chain worked.
• Fig. 4. Sketch of the Plan of the Tomb of Jehoshaphat.
• Fig. 5. Tomb, like that of our Lord, situated on the South of Jerusalem.
  • u. y. Position of the stone when the entrance was closed.

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

PLATE LVII.

ANCIENT JEWISH SYNAGOGUE IN THE VALLEY OF
THE KIDRON, TOWARDS THE NORTH.

• 1. Prominent parts of each side of the Synagogue.
• 2. Ruins.
• 3. Mass of rock on which the Rabbins used to read Prayers.

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