The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

by H. Clay Trumbull

[214]. In Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palæstina Vereins, VIII., 335 ff.

[215]. See De Amicis’s Constantinople, p. 185.

[216]. One of these old-time prayer-rugs with the open hand embroidered on it, is in the possession of Dr. Hilprecht.

[217]. See Morier’s Second Journey through Persia, pp. 75–184.

[218]. Rosenmüller’s Das Alte und Neue Morgenland, II., 92 f.

[219]. See, for example, Perrot and Chipiez’s History of Art in Phœnicia, I., 54, 263.

[220]. De Hesse-Wartegg’s Tunis: The Land and the People, p. 127.

[221]. On the testimony of Professor Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr.

[222]. Gen. 11 : 31; 15 : 7.

[223]. Perrot and Chipiez’s Hist. of Art in Chald. and Assy., I., 38; see, also, p. 84.