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Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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fore he built the Chapel. Then he laid the foundation inthe middle of the Mosque, and commanded that the Treasury f should be built upon the east side of the Sakhrah Thus he built and loaded it with riches ; and he nominated as Commissioners for this purpose Rija-ibn-Haywah, andYazid-ibn-Salam, and committed to the care of these the expenses of thebuilding, and the things necessary for the undertaking, and that they should * Reinaud, Extraits des Hist. Arabes, p 218. f The Dome of the Chain is of great beauty. We havespoken of it intreating of the works of Abd-el-Melik-ibn-Mirvan. It served as a model forthe dome of the Sakhrah. Medjir-ed-din, in Fundgruben des Orients, ii. 89 ;see also Jalal Addin, p. 21, 24. 388 ON THE ALLEGED SITE OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE. expend the treasure upon it to the last dinar, so as just to lay it out in the paj-ment of expenses. They therefore undertook the building and the fitung-up,until the work was finished, and the building brought to a conclusion ; and
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Bait-el-Mukaddas—The Holy Abode.Dome of the Rock. there was not a word left to be spoken of it. Then they wrote thus to him, hebeing at Damascus,— God hath brought to an end that which the Commanderof Believers hath commanded us respecting the erection of the Chapel of theSakhrah, the Sakhrah of the Holy City, and the Mosque el Aksa, and thereremains not a word to be spoken about it. Moreover, there remains somesurplus above the money granted to us by the Commander of Believers to thatend, after 100,000 dinars have been expended thereon. Let the Commanderof the Faithful convert it to the object he likes best. And the Khalif -ttTote tothem, The Commander of Believers committed to your charge whatsoevershould be fit and proper when he appointed you superintendents of the restora-tion of this glorious and blessed Temple. Then they Avrote to him, We havethought that it well deserved of us that we should augment the amount by theornaments of our women, taking the suj^erfluity of our we

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