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| Title | Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2 |
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| Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
| Date | 1883 |
| Description | Index: Phoenicia and Lebanon / by the Rev. H. W. Jessup -- The Phoenician plain / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- Acre, the key of Palestine, Mount Carmel and the river Kishon, Maritime cities and plains of Palestine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Lydda and Ramleh, Philistia / By Lt. Col. Warren -- The south country of Judaea / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- The southern borderland and Dead Sea / by Professor Palmer -- Mount Hor and the cliffs of Edom, The convent of St. Catherine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Sinai / by the Rev. C. P. Clarke -- The land of Goshen, Cairo, Memphis, Thebes, Edfu and Philae / by S. Lane-Poole. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | DS107 .W73 v.2 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1703789~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_015 |
| Title | Page 46 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_015_063.jpg |
| Transcript | mmmmmmmmmmmmmmKmm^mi 46 WE. nil embaln There are also nd in the villa ity. Those in the in the decorated tombs ts. .\b.uit ten min 1 |jjc Mugharet Ablfln, or 1 where, in was now in the museum of the- Louvr- ription nc hundred and ninety words ell cut and m lead ;Up lars have ma ll translations of it. which . of K.n,* MMM CUt Off thai r«.y «*)Vrfn^M -jnrrfi who h^*r rrrt t. 4if Amm lb* I in nt, son of Tabnith, king of the Sidoniani donians. ipake, saying, I am snatched away before my time, like the flowing of a river .... y man who shall open : couch, he nor be buried in a v nor leave b holy gods she! \shmunazar, king of the SiA^u^ »n*. graaaeos uif Aahaionasar, km*; oi the Sidonians, and m> mother, Immiaatoreth, prieeteeeol latartcaai ■ he tea, and the heavenly powers have rendered Astarte favourable. It it we nuno and the sanctuary ot kings, who bestowed - j oppaand root of Dan iption is written in the Phoenician character, and is one of the most import yel discovered, the next in inl ing thai of Mesha on the • stone, the •.♦ and a tarifl of Punic origin. The various rich archi ilar records, ved w ith from the mos' iluable of which is the < ician work of Sanchoniathon \la Baal, king of Beirut It is the opinion of Professor •Id Phoenician libraries must still < mewhere in theunex ruins oi e gard a arc n the watch for new 1 I mgh the soil or dig foundations for building. The citadel of Sidon, called by the A aw an have been built 1»\ Louis IX. in \2 its base two col* »ssuI were recently exhumed. The Kul'at el Bahr, * on the Sea, Stan a small island cone with the land by a bridge of nine arches. It was built the large blocks belonging more ancient structure. The I " had not been discovered wh- «>f the Conduit and Pools of Siloam (see page D June, 1880, by a pupil of Uerr Schick, an ho hat long resided la Jerusalem He was wading along m the Fountain of the Virgin to ich looked like letters" on the rocky wall of the chant hnodrad and eight feet, hot I one thiv: hundred and four feet, for the channel <!«viatea considerably from »ut into the Upper Before tl ; of the wa» trmm 1 .I attttnd I rofessor Sayce 1 i equeeje of the Inch onl iry) have been made, the mi-! ind while then wan cuWtl ■ « of one 1 re was a (ta a the rock on the right The* rose up I for a lof a thooaan<i |