Identifier: museumofclassical00falk (find matches)
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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epulchre be entirely groundless, and the controversy respecting it be for everterminated. For if the rocky spur projecting from the west, and upon whichstands the neighbouring church of the Holy Sepulchre, belonged to Acra, thenmust another site be sought for the Holy Sepulchre in lieu of that which is nowpointed out, and one, moreover, outside of the walls of the ancient Jerusalem.(12.) But let us suppose that Acra existed where he has shown it, how is it pos-sible for him to draw a line of valley which shall, at the same time, (as Josephusdescribes,) separate Acra from Bezetha, and Acra from Moriah ? Is it not evi-dent to everybody, that, in order to comply with this condition, Bezetha andMoriah must be on one and the same side of the valley, and Acra on the other ?Is it not also extraordinary, that, with what these writers acknowledge as abroad valley running dowTi from the Damascus Gate, they do not see that this PLAN OF JERUSALEM. (From Schaffters Achte La^e des Heili^en Grahe^.)
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REFERENCES. / Tower of PkcMa^Zu^ 2 Tower of Mariumne^ 3 Tower of Hippixiiuy4- Genrtaih Gate^ 6 Momurtent oftfw Hi^liIVie^t John€ Ohuroh of the Holy SepiclohrC 7 Pool of Hezehiah 8 The Old. Gate 9 The Pool ofBelhe^da- W Thf. UpperPovl // The Lower Pooh i2 The^ Pool of Siloa-my /3 The FuJJerlF Morhume^it // The Tornhty of lh£^ Kin^tP /^ T/te Third Wrf/l ^6 Th^ Second Wall 1 APPENDIX. 473 valley must be the broad valley described by Josephus, and wliich tallies soprecisely with other requirements ? But let us also grant him this, and takeaway this broad valley : how would he be enabled to place it between his Acra(t. e. Antonia) and Moriah, where we know, both from history and actual inspec-tion, that no valley ever existed ?* But if he assert that the valley filled up bythe Asamonaeans existed on the other or northern side of his Acra or Antonia,how is it then that Titus still found a valley in this position ? and how wouldthe filling up of that valley join his Acra to Moriah ? Herr

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