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Identifier: surveyofwesternp00warruoft (find matches)
Title: The survey of Western Palestine-Jerusalem
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Warren, Charles, Sir, 1840-1927 Palestine Exploration Fund Conder, C. R. (Claude Reignier), 1848-1910
Subjects: Jerusalem -- Antiquities Jerusalem -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Palestine Exploration Fund
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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en the moat north-east of Jerusalem and the magni-ficent pine standing close to a winepress worked by Mohammedans; this place is generallyknown under the name of Kurm esh Sheikh.!- These sepulchres are interesting from adouble point of view: (i) in regard to their form : they belong to the horizontal system ofrock sepulture; the entrance consists of a rectangular trench about i-6o m. by 0-45 m., andmore than a metre in depth; at the end a rebate cut in the rock appears to iiave beendestined to receive and support a slab closing the tomb properly so-called, placed in asepulchral chamber situated below. So far as I have been able to judge of the exterior, * See Part II., under head Kurm esh Sheikh. 3S 298 THE SURIEY or WESTERN PALESTINE. these chambers arc excavated in a vaullctl form : they aj^pcar to have a considerableextent, and the proprietor of the ground lias assured me that many of them communicate.There have been found in them, I am told by the jiroprietor, quantities of bones.
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broken pottery, boxes in soft stone, and an car-ring in gold, which he promised toshow me. JERUSALEM. 299 (2) The position of the sepulchres may be of imporlance for the question, adhuc subjudke, of the third wall of Jerusalem. They extend along a line of about 125 degrees,starting from the south-east angle of the building, marked close to the great pine on the

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