The Survey of Western Palestine, 1882-1888: A survey of eastern Palestine, 1881Archive Editions, 1998 - Palestine |
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Page 105
... plateau south - west of the city is called el Jâmåîyeh ( ' of the mosque ' ) , and is also strewn with masonry similar to that in the main part of the site . On the south of the Tell is the flat open valley which leads to the southern ...
... plateau south - west of the city is called el Jâmåîyeh ( ' of the mosque ' ) , and is also strewn with masonry similar to that in the main part of the site . On the south of the Tell is the flat open valley which leads to the southern ...
Page 186
... plateau about a quarter of a mile square , and rather lower than the plateau of the Hajr el Mansûb . It is surrounded by a sort of amphitheatre of low spurs , on all sides but the south , where it reaches the brink of the great slope or ...
... plateau about a quarter of a mile square , and rather lower than the plateau of the Hajr el Mansûb . It is surrounded by a sort of amphitheatre of low spurs , on all sides but the south , where it reaches the brink of the great slope or ...
Page 187
... plateau . East of the group on the knoll EL MAREIGHÂT . - PRINCIPAL GROUP OF MENHIRS . there are three or more alignments of menhirs running parallel , approxi- mately north and south . The plateau on the south side of the knoll is ...
... plateau . East of the group on the knoll EL MAREIGHÂT . - PRINCIPAL GROUP OF MENHIRS . there are three or more alignments of menhirs running parallel , approxi- mately north and south . The plateau on the south side of the knoll is ...
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12 feet 20 feet 9 feet 9 inches Adwân Ain Hesbân Ammân appears Arab arches arcosolium Beni Sakhr blocks building built Byzantine cairn capstone cave chamber circle cisterns cliff dolmens drafted east and west endstone fallen feet 3 inches feet 9 feet high feet in diameter feet long feet square feet thick feet wide Fendi flat foot foundations grave Heshbon hill Himyaritic inches high inches in diameter inches thick inches wide Jabbok Jogbehah Jordan Valley Kabr Kefrein Khurbet knoll Kusr Lieutenant Mantell lintel lintel-stone loculus Mâdeba Mareighât masonry measured menhirs Minyeh Moab monument Neba Nebo Nimrin north and south north-east north-west paces Palestine pillars plateau probably reduced map remains ridge road rock rock-cut Roman round rude Rujm sarcophagi Sheikh sidestones slope south-east south-west spring stones stream Tell terebinth tomb tower trilithon vaults VIEWS OF DOLMENS Visited September voussoirs Wâdy Hesbân WÂDY JIDEID wall yards Zophim