LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Frontispiece: Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
Fig. | Page | |
1. | Assyrian representation of the Tree of Life | 14 |
2. | The Ark | 37 |
3. | Noe in the Ark with the returning dove | 42 |
4. | Birs Nimrud (Tower of Confusion) | 47 |
5. | View of Nabulus (Sichem) | 53 |
6. | Bedouins riding on their Camels | 56 |
7. | The Dead Sea | 63 |
8. | View of Hebron | 73 |
9. | Bethel | 81 |
10. | Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem | 87 |
11. | Gathering grapes | 98 |
12. | Treading the grapes | 98 |
13. | Wine-press | 98 |
14. | Inundation of the Nile | 101 |
15. | King sitting on his throne, giving audience to a governor | 103 |
16. | Egyptian wheat | 105 |
17. | Egyptian painted coffin for depositing the embalmed body | 119 |
18. | Egyptian mummy-coffin | 120 |
19. | Lepers in Palestine | 125 |
20. | Israelites forced to labour in Egypt (brick-making) | 129 |
21. | Head of Pharao (Menephtah I.) | 136 |
22. | Locust | 138 |
23. | Egyptian King (Ramses II.) on his chariot, taking a hostile fortress | 146 |
24. | Egyptian soldiers | 147 |
25. | Mount Sinai with St. Catherine’s Convent in the foreground | 153 |
26. | Apis | 159 |
27. | The Tabernacle in the desert | 162 |
28. | Ark of the Covenant | 163 |
29. | Altar of incense | 163 |
30. | Seven-branched Candlestick | 163 |
31. | Table of the loaves of proposition | 164 |
32. | Altar of holocausts | 164 |
33. | Breast-Plate (Rational) of the High Priest | 169 |
34. | Priest | 170 |
35. | High Priest | 171 |
36. | Mount Nebo | 188 |
37. | Ruins of Jericho | 192 |
38. | Type of Philistine (ulasati) | 197 |
39. | Dagon | 200 |
40. | So-called field of Booz near Bethlehem | 206 |
41. | David's Tower at Jerusalem | 233 |
42. | Musical Instruments of old Egypt | 234 |
43. | Musical Instruments of the Assyrians | 235 |
44. | Valley of Josaphat with Absalom’s Tomb | 242 |
45. | Sepulchre of David in Sion at Jerusalem | 249 |
46. | Cedars on Mount Lebanon | 254 |
47. | God Moloch | 265 |
48. | Place where ancient Sarepta stood | 266 |
49. | Mount Carmel | 270 |
50. | Eliseus’ spring near Jericho | 280 |
51. | Shark | 288 |
52. | Sennacherib on his throne | 293 |
53. | Bethulia (Sanur) | 316 |
54. | Cameo with inscription of Nabuchodonozor | 322 |
55. | Jeremias’ Grotto near Jerusalem | 323 |
56. | Bel with lion | 335 |
57. | Monument of Cyrus at Murghab | 341 |
58. | Ruins of the Palace of Assuerus (Xerxes I.) at Persepolis | 352 |
59. | Zeus (Jupiter) | 361 |
60. | Coin of Simon Machabeus (silver shekel) | 374 |
61. | Church of the Annunciation at Nazareth | 386 |
62. | St. John in the Mountains | 391 |
63. | Bethlehem | 398 |
64. | Church of the Nativity and Convent at Bethlehem | 399 |
65. | Grotto of the Nativity in the Church at Bethlehem | 400 |
66. | The Temple of Herod | 407 |
67. | Myrrh | 413 |
68. | So-called Place of Temptation on Mt. Quarantine | 430 |
69. | Jerusalem | 443 |
70. | Jacob’s well near Sichar to-day | 449 |
71. | Lake of Genesareth with the Ruins of Tiberias | 462 |
72. | Mount of the Beatitudes | 468 |
73. | Site of ancient Naim | 489 |