Identifier: antiquitiesofori00reddrich (find matches)
Title: Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of barleyand wheat may be seen growing. Therefore shallZion, for your sake, be ploughed as a field, andJerusalem become heaps, and the mountain of thehouse as the high places of the forests. (Micah iii.12.) Several valleys begin north and west of the city,and wind south and west to the sea, the larerest ofwhich is Wady Beit Hanina, continued in WadySm-ar. The mountains round about Jerusalem higher than the city on every side ; so it is necessaryto go ujp to the city from any direction. The names and localities of the several hills areplainly given on the engraving.* The walls of themodern city are indicated by the heavy black line.The more ancient walls are shown by dots and marksarranged and named on the engraving. In the Bible and Josephus there are given thenames of the gates, towers, and notable edifices,the sites of which are laid down on the plan inaccordance with the reports of the latest ordnanc3purveys and explorations. * Jerusalem and its ruins—See first part of the Book.
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^iM CHAPTEE III RELICS, OB.TECTS, AND PLACES OF INTEREST, Ancient Pottery—Lamjps—Knims and other Belies—Zion Bridge—Ancient Castle of David—Gatesof the Citxj—Pools—Fountains—Valley of Je-Uoshajphat—Village of Stloam—Ancient Tombsaiid Vaults—Valley of Hinnom—Aceldama theField of Blood. In tlie description of the Subterranean Quarry, a cutof a lamp is given,showing how the quarry was lightedwhile the men were at work. It will be interestingto notice some of the many foi-ms of lamps, with theirsingular marks and inscriptions, that have been foundamong the rubbish in the various excavations underJerusalem, in cisterns or sewers, where they have beenaccidentally dropped, or in chambers where theywere left when the rooms were abandoned. Nearlyall of those found are broken, a few only beingwhole, which had been lost, perhaps. Many of theobjects found in the rubbish were the work of Greeksor Romans, and may have been imported from Europe.But there are also specimens of

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