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RYRTAN ARCHTTECTURE.
Book IV.
M6. Plan of Temple at Jerusalem, as rebuilt by Herod. Seale 200 ft. to 1 in.
Tliis had fonr gates on tlie north side, and as many on the south,
three on each side leading into the inner court, the two niost eastern
to the women’s court. To the east there were also two gates, more
magnificent than the rest; the first leading into the women’s court,
the second from it into the inner court: hoth seem to have been
adorned with all the art the Jews were capable of lavishing on such
objects. In the inner court stood the altar, in the axis of the building,
and beyond that the temple or holy house itself, somewhat larger
than Solomon’s, but built on the same plan, and with the evident
intention of' being an exact reproduction of it, although, judging from
the evidently Eoman charaoter of the outer courts, it is more than
probable that many features of Eoman art were introduced into its
details also.
Taken altogether, it must be confessed this was a very splendid
building, though the temple or Naos itself wus so small. Its sub-
structures, of a class of masonry very similar to that found in the
terrace at Passargados (woodcut No. 130), still strike every beholder
with astonishment—the mass is so great, tlie stones so large, and the
features altogether so bold. The Stoa Basiliea wras in itself as large
as one of our finest Gothic cathedrals. The terrace, with its 10 great
gatewrays, its inner porches, and last of all the temple itself, if it made
up at all in richness for the smaliness of its proportions, must liave
fonned a group seWom surpassed, and almost justifying the encomiums
which Josephus passes upon it.
RYRTAN ARCHTTECTURE.
Book IV.
M6. Plan of Temple at Jerusalem, as rebuilt by Herod. Seale 200 ft. to 1 in.
Tliis had fonr gates on tlie north side, and as many on the south,
three on each side leading into the inner court, the two niost eastern
to the women’s court. To the east there were also two gates, more
magnificent than the rest; the first leading into the women’s court,
the second from it into the inner court: hoth seem to have been
adorned with all the art the Jews were capable of lavishing on such
objects. In the inner court stood the altar, in the axis of the building,
and beyond that the temple or holy house itself, somewhat larger
than Solomon’s, but built on the same plan, and with the evident
intention of' being an exact reproduction of it, although, judging from
the evidently Eoman charaoter of the outer courts, it is more than
probable that many features of Eoman art were introduced into its
details also.
Taken altogether, it must be confessed this was a very splendid
building, though the temple or Naos itself wus so small. Its sub-
structures, of a class of masonry very similar to that found in the
terrace at Passargados (woodcut No. 130), still strike every beholder
with astonishment—the mass is so great, tlie stones so large, and the
features altogether so bold. The Stoa Basiliea wras in itself as large
as one of our finest Gothic cathedrals. The terrace, with its 10 great
gatewrays, its inner porches, and last of all the temple itself, if it made
up at all in richness for the smaliness of its proportions, must liave
fonned a group seWom surpassed, and almost justifying the encomiums
which Josephus passes upon it.