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

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

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

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

Pierotti, Ermete

Jerusalem -- Antiquities; Jerusalem -- Description and travel

Helena).
  61. School of Saladin (in ruins).
  62. House with a façade of Saracenic Architecture.
  63. Ancient Building of the date of Saladin, now a Government Prison.
  64. Saracenic Fountain (without water.)
  65. Military Hospital (House of Dives).
  66. Place where Simon the Cyrenian met our Saviour.
  67. Place where the Virgin Mary met our Saviour.
  68. Palace of the Governor.
  69. Property of the Armenian Catholics.
  70. Property of the Kusbeck Dervishes.
  71. Hospice for Austrian Italy.
  72. Property of the Daughters of Sion.
  73. Hospice of the Flagellation and Chapel.
  74. Remains of an Ancient Tower (commonly called the Tower Antonia).
  75. Property of the Church of S. Ann belonging to France.
  76. Saracenic Fountain (without water).
  77. Pool of the Virgin.
  78. Ruin of a small Saracenic Monument.
  79. Throne of Solomon (Mohammedan tradition).
  80. Tomb of Yacûb Pasha and his Wife.

  [Illustration: HARAM ES-SHERIF, Plate XI.
  E. Pierotti, Mest. & Delt.
  Cambridge. Deighton, Bell & Co.--London. Bell & Daldy.
  Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.]




    PLATE XII.

  PLAN OF LAND BELONGING TO THE DAUGHTERS OF SION, AND OF THE SUBTERRANEAN
  PASSAGE COMMUNICATING WITH MORIAH, DISCOVERED BY PIEROTTI--SECTIONS
  RELATING TO THIS LAND AND TO MOUNT MORIAH.

  Fig. 1. Building belonging to the Daughters of Sion.

   V. Spring discovered by Pierotti.
   X. Water-conduit.
   1. Sewer.
   2. Mohammedan properties.
   3. To Gate of Herod, and Bezetha.
   4. To Hospice of the Flagellation.
   5. To Bezetha.
   6. Convent of the Daughters of Sion.
   7. Greek property.
   8. Latin property.
   9. Via Dolorosa (traditional).
  10. Arch discovered by Pierotti.
  11. Arch called that of the Ecce Homo (posterior to the death of
      Christ).
  12. Ancient Christian Chapel.
  13. Convent of the Kusbeck Dervishes.
  14. Subterranean passage discovered by Pierotti.
  15. Ancient Gate, closed.
  16. Sewer discovered by Pierotti.
  17. Descent into vault.
  18. Barrack of the Haram es-Sherîf.
  19. To Haram es-Sherîf.
  20. Minaret of Haram es-Sherîf.
  21. Gate, closed.
  22. Rock. Haram es-Sherîf.
  23. Western Sewer} discovered by
  24. Eastern Sewer} Pierotti.
  Fig. 2. (G) (H). Longitudinal Section.
  Fig. 3. (I) (L). Transverse Section.
  Fig. 4. (M) (N). Section of the Arch of the Ecce Homo.
  Fig. 5. (M) (N). View of the Arch of the Ecce Homo.

  (S'.S'). Conventional Signs.
  (a'). High Rock.
  (b'). Levelled Rock.
  (c'). Heaps of Ruins.
  (d'). Water. Cistern. Spring.
  (e'). Modern Walls.
  (f'). Walls of the City.
  (g'). Jewish Walls.
  (h'). Roman Walls.
  (i'). Walls of the Haram es-Sherîf.

  See PLATE XI.

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

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