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Identifier: surveyofwesternp00warruoft (find matches)
Title: The survey of Western Palestine-Jerusalem
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Warren, Charles, Sir, 1840-1927 Palestine Exploration Fund Conder, C. R. (Claude Reignier), 1848-1910
Subjects: Jerusalem -- Antiquities Jerusalem -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Palestine Exploration Fund
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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the Haram. The vaulting and piers of the passage from the Double Gate, theDouble Tunnel from the Triple Gate, and the so-called SolomonsStables, are generally acknowledged to be of Byzantine origin. Thesevaults have all the same peculiarity of a very narrow keystone with 246 THE SURVEY 01- WESTERN PALESTINE. voussoirs gradually increasing in width towards the haunches. The samepeculiarity is observable in the vaulting of the passage from the ProphetsGate, and in the masonry vaults covering cisterns I. and III. (of theOrdnance Survey), as well as in the older part of the vaulting over theTwin Pools. It is probable, therefore, that the passage from Barclays(or tin; Prophets) Gate was roofed in in the sixth century, the older roofof the passage having fallen in, unless the entrance consisted only of anopen passage without any roof. Dome of the Rock. Restorations were commenced in 1873 by order of the Sultan Abd elAziz, and during their execution several interesting discoveries were made.
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The I larain was frequently visited at this time by MINI. Clermont Ganneauand Le Comte, by Lieutenant Conder, and by l\Tr. Tyrwhitt Drake. JERUSALEM. 247 Herr Schick was also connected with the work as an adviser of thenative architects. Within the Dome of the Rock the marble casing of theblocks above the pillars and surrounding the bases was removed and theoriginal bases laid bare. They proved to be different from each other,and the shafts were found to rest on a bedding of lead above the base.The capitals were all sketched by Lieutenant Conder in 1S73, with a viewof showing the great differences existing between them. It appears that

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