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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doth (Book of Measures) says the north wall wasneai-er to the Temple and had but one gate, calledTedi. The same authority says it was a small gateand for a special purpose. There is a flight of stone steps in front of theGolden Gate, now buried under rubbish and soil, thedeposit of centuries since the Crusades. The wi-itersof that age speak of many steps that lead down totlie valley. The whole of the space outside of thewall in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and especially onthe east of the Temple site, is used as a cemetery, andevery available foot of soil has been occupied over andover many times, and always guarded with super-stitious fidelity against all infidel intrusion. It istherefore only possible to examine the locality byunderground passages. A Mohammedan, in a.d.1150, describes the chief buildings very much as theyare now; and also that the Door of Mercy (GoldenGate) was closed, but passage was had through thesmall one, El Asbat (the tribes), a bow-shot fromwhich was a large an

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