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Pàgina 13 - In passing this way, we observed in the sides of the rock above us, several tables of figures carved, which seemed to promise something of antiquity ; to be satisfied of which, some of us clambered up to the place, and found there some signs as if the old way had gone in that region before Antoninus cut the other more convenient passage a little lower. In several places hereabouts, we saw strange antique figures of men, carved in the natural rock, in mezzo- relievo, and in bigness equal to the life....
Pàgina 13 - we observed in the sides of the rock above us, several tables of figures carved, which seemed to promise something of antiquity. To be satisfied of which some of us clambered up to the place, and found there some signs as if the old way had gone in that region, before Antoninus cut the other more convenient passage, a little lower. In several places hereabouts, we saw strange antique figures of men carved in the natural rock, in mezzo-relievo, and in bigness equal to the life. Close by each figure...
Pàgina 13 - Being passed the river, you immediately begin to ascend the mountain, or rather great rock, on the other side. To accommodate the passage you have a path of above two yards' breadth cut along its side, at a great height above the water, being the work of the emperor Antoninus ; for the promontory allowing no passage between it and the sea, at bottom, that emperor undertook, with incredible labour, to open this way above, the memory of which good work is perpetuated by an inscription...
Pàgina 13 - The rocks that sustain the road south of the river, preserve the remains of ten monuments of great interest, and of various epochae. The most ancient, but unfortunately the most corroded, are three Egyptian tablets : on them may be...
Pàgina 18 - Al-Debarim is literally (and in the Arabic language) " the LEADING star," which I beg of them not to forget, because it denotes commencement. To lead was to commence and head (like the general of an army) the annual march of the host of heaven; for in that warlike and semi-barbarous age, military metaphors and modes of expression were preferred to all others, and therefore...
Pàgina 18 - I have no doubt, to the bon-ton of Babylon : and even yet, this love of the phraseology of war, is scarcely gone out of fashion, so fond are we, in this enlightened age, as it calls itself, of the captains or leaders of the hosts of earth. We may here add, that the same astronomical priests who named the Pleiades, Al-Thuriaya, or stars of abundance, named the Alpha of Taurus, Al-Debarim, or the leader of the celestial host of Saboath, or Sabaoth, literally meaning, sacred signs.
Pàgina 13 - Salman-Assyr, (that is to say, within about eighteen years,) out of the question, because of his miraculous discomfiture, his hasty retreat, and his subsequent assassination. But before he approached Jerusalem, he also had pushed his conquests northward to Hamath, on the Orontes, consequently had over-run the district through which flows the river Lycus, and where these rocks are situate.
Pàgina 20 - Or rather, tvtien the rock was sculptured, they were thus shedding their influence ; for unhappily, of the Dove, which has been held by, or perched on, the right hand of the monarch, nothing remains but his tail ; upon which, we must take what care we » are able to scatter a little antiquarian salt. But perhaps I should rather say that Mr. Bonomi has done l/ris, and we are thereby enabled to catch this bird.
Pàgina 13 - Sidonians, is not unlikely to have been made the basis of that of the Assyrian king, who followed. He would have pride in shewing how many more talents he had power to levy ; or with how much less his moderation was satisfied. Bible readers will have remarked, that in this enquiry, or enumeration, I have put Sennacherib, who soon followed in the same track with Pul-Assyr and...
Pàgina 22 - This reference to the globe, — when taken with what else I have had the honour of submitting, — may serve to shew that the present monument appertains, or belongs to, the far distant date which I have assigned to it, as well as to the southern latitude whence we know it was brought. Having...