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
Pierotti, Ermete
Jerusalem -- Antiquities; Jerusalem -- Description and travel
Fig. 1. (B) (A). Longitudinal Section of the Haram es-Sherîf.
1. Ophel.
2. Walls of the City.
3. Ruined Houses.
4. Mosque el-Aksa.
5. Rock.
6. Staircase leading to the vaults of the Mosque el-Aksa.
7. Birket es-Sultan. Cistern.
8. Water-channels.
9. Court of the Mosque of Kubbet es-Sakharah.
10. Kubbet es-Sakharah.
11. Cistern for blood, formerly the cistern of the threshing-floor of
Araunah the Jebusite.
12. Cisterns for blood.
13. Kiblet dedicated to the Fatma.
14. Kiblet dedicated to the Angel Gabriel.
15. Houses of the times of the Crusaders, of Solyman, &c.
16. Little Sakharah.
17. Barrack of the Haram es-Sherîf.
18. Houses of the time of Saladin.
19. Northern Valley.
20. Barrack of the time of Ibrahim Pasha.
21. Mount Bezetha.
a. South Gate of the time of Justinian.
b. Staircase leading into the Cistern.
c. Fountain.
d. Kiblet of Saladin. Invisible scales.
e. Kiblet of Zachariah.
f. Gallery of Herod discovered by Pierotti.
Fig. 2. (C) (D). Transverse Section of the Haram es-Sherîf.
22. Mount Sion.
23. Tyropoeon Valley.
24. Descent to Silla.
25. Acra.
26. Bath. Hammam es-Shefa.
27. Spring. Hammam es-Shefa.
28. Dome of Moses.
15. Houses of the times of the Crusaders, of Solyman, &c.
31. Channels.
29. Site of Mohammed's Ascension.
10. Kubbet es-Sakharah.
11. Cistern for blood.
30. Dome of the Chain--Kubbet es-Silsileh.
9. Court of the Mosque of Kubbet es-Sakharah.
32. Cisterns for receiving the blood and ashes.
33. Golden Gate.
34. Mount Moriah.
35. Mohammedan Cemetery.
3. Wall of Haram es-Sherîf.
Fig. 3. (F) (G). Ancient Section.
36. Temple, properly so called.
37. Court of the Levites. Azarath Cohanîm.
38. Court of the Israelites. Azarath Yisrael.
39. Tower Antonia, by Pierotti.
40. Remains of the Wall of the Prætorium, and position of the same.
41. High Rock.
Fig. 4. Section of the City.
g. Mount Gihon.
h. Valley of Gihon.
i. Mount Sion.
k. Tyropoeon Valley.
l. Mount Acra.
m. Large Valley.
n. Mount Moriah.
o. Valley of the Kidron.
p. Mount of Olives.
Fig. 5. Section of Mount Moriah.
q. Ophel.
n. Moriah.
r. Northern Valley.
s. Mount Bezetha.
(S). Conventional Signs.
(a). Rock.
(b). Heaps of Ruins.
(c). Walls of the early Arab period.
(d). Distant Houses.
(e). Ancient Walls.
(f). Water-conduits.
(g). Conduit for blood.
[Illustration: PLATE XII.
E. Pierotti, Mest. & Delt.
Cambridge. Deighton, Bell & Co.--London. Bell & Daldy.
Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.]
PLATE XIII.
VIEW OF THE ARCH OF THE ECCE-HOMO, WITH THE SMALLER ARCH TO THE NORTH,
DISCOVERED BY PIEROTTI.
1. Arch of Ecce-Homo (?) Roman arch posterior to the death of Christ.
2. Mohammedan room, or place of prayers for the Mohammedans.
3. Arch discovered by Pierotti.
4. Cistern.
5. Niche of the period of the Crusades.
6. Convent of the Daughters of Sion.
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