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

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

PLATE IX.

PLANS AND SECTION OF THE ROYAL CAVERNS, AND
OF THE GROTTO OF JEREMIAH.

• Fig. 1. Royal Caverns.
  • 1. Ancient Entrance into the Caves.
  • 2. Present Entrance.
  • 3. The place from which the Jews quarried stones.
  • 4. Large and deep Excavations, from which the Monolith of the Mosque el-Aksa was taken.
  • 5. Fountain.
  • 6. Overhanging rocks.
  • 7. Chiselled rock, with the places from which blocks have been extracted.
  • A. Present Wall of the City.
  • B. C. D. &c. Positions corresponding with the different Levels of the Section.
• Fig. 2. Grotto of Jeremiah.
  • 8. Entrance.
  • 9. Ancient Room of the period of S. Helena.
  • 10. Cemetery of Dervishes.
  • 11. Mohammedan Tomb of a Dervish.
  • 12. Dervishes' Cooking-place.
  • 13. Premises for food.
  • 14. Place of Prayer.
  • 15. Chiselled rock, with the places from which blocks have been extracted.
  • 16. Pilaster.
  • 17. Mill.
  • 18. Modern Wall.

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