Northwest of ‛Âbûd is a place called Muḳâṭ‛a, evidently an old quarry, the working of which had disturbed a still older cemetery of rock-cut tombs, some of them painted. The carving in some of these is elaborate. One tomb, with a vestibule twenty-one and three-quarters feet wide and ten feet deep is ornamented at the top with a grape cluster suspended between two wreaths. Another vestibule twenty-six feet two inches wide shows gate sockets on each side. This vestibule served two tomb-chambers, one directly in front as one enters and the other in the right wall. The entrance to the former has been crushed open, leaving a large irregular hole. Within are nine full-sized _kokim_ with smaller, shallow cuttings in the tier above them which looked like embryo kokim. The right-hand tomb-chamber has three kokim on the left side and three opposite the entrance, one of the latter having been broken or cut through to the daylight, probably in the process of quarrying from the other side. This smaller tomb shows a fresco in black and red and perhaps yellow paint. The design is in large, diamond-shaped figures, with a rope border over it. There are many scratchings on the walls. ----- Footnote 1: Hosea 13: 3. Footnote 2: 1 Kings 17: 7; Job 6: 15, 17. Footnote 3: Psalm 104: 10. Footnote 4: 1 Kings 18: 4; 19: 9, 13; Judges 6: 2. Footnote 5: 1 Sam. 13: 5, 6; 14: 11, 22. Footnote 6: Judges 13–15. Footnote 7: Isa. 35: 7; 41: 18; 42: 15. Footnote 8: _Cf._ Joshua 15: 19. Footnote 9: Song 4: 2; 6: 6. Footnote 10: John 4: 6. Footnote 11: _Cf._ Eccles. 2: 6. Footnote 12: John 9: 7. Footnote 13: 2 Kings 20: 20. Footnote 14: Gen. 8: 22. Footnote 15: Song 2: 11. Footnote 16: 2 Sam. 23: 4. Footnote 17: 2 Sam. 23: 20. Footnote 18: Matt. 24: 20; Mark 13: 18. Footnote 19: _Cf._ 1 Kings 18: 43–45. Footnote 20: _Cf._ Prov. 26: 1. Footnote 21: _Cf._ Deut. 11: 14; Job 29: 23; Prov. 16: 15; Jer. 3: 3; 5: 24; Hosea 6: 3; Joel 2: 23; Zech. 10: 1; James 5: 7. Footnote 22: Amos 4: 7. Footnote 23: _Cf._ Psalm 65: 9–13. Footnote 24: Jer. 8: 20. Footnote 25: Gen. 30: 14. Footnote 26: Song 7: 13. Footnote 27: Jer. 18: 17; Ezek. 17: 10; 19: 12; Hosea 13: 15; Jonah 4: 8. Footnote 28: Prov. 25: 23. Footnote 29: Psalm 129: 6. Footnote 30: Isa. 32: 2. Footnote 31: Song 2: 12. Footnote 32: Song 2: 15. Footnote 33: Matt. 5: 14. Footnote 34: Isa. 5: 2. Footnote 35: Num. 22: 24. Footnote 36: Jer. 6: 16. Footnote 37: Psalm 107: 4–7. Footnote 38: Ezek. 34: 14. Footnote 39: Isa. 33: 12. Footnote 40: Jer. 4: 3; Hosea 10: 12. Footnote 41: _Cf._ John 15. Footnote 42: Isa. 5: 2. Footnote 43: 1 Sam. 30: 6; 1 Kings 12: 18; 2 Kings 3: 25; _cf._ Matt. 23: 37; John 8: 59; 10: 31. Footnote 44: _Cf._ Matt. 4: 5; 27: 53. Footnote 45: 1 Sam. 7: 5. Footnote 46: 1 Kings 6: 23, 31–33. Footnote 47: Matt. 7: 19.