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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size of many of the stoneswith which they were built, this ancient city was with-out a rival. The grand ruins of Baalbek stand at the westernextremity of the town, and just within the modernwall. There are three orders of architecture, evident-ly belonging to as many distinct eras. First, thestupendous walls and platforms, built of hewn stonesof enormous size, and traversed by vaulted passagesin several directions; secondly, two very large tem-ples, of a later date, smmounting the platforms;thirdly, the modern or Saracenic walls and towers, in-corporated with the original structures when the placewas converted into a fortress. The modern additionsare oddly built up of cornices, architraves, and pillars,and incongruously contrast with the venerable relicswhich they encumber and obscure. The site of the ruins is nearly a dead level, onwhich has been reared a platform 1000 feet long, 600broad, and varying from 15 to 30 feet in higlit. Thisplatform is composed of huge cut stones, tluee of
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