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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.10357#0142
JERUSALEM.
117
JERUSALEM FROM THE SOUTH.
Showing the position of Bir Eyub (Job's Well) just below the junction of the Kedron and
Hinnom Valleys.
statues, through which the water ran out." This seems to imply
the constant presence of running water; and as the palace with its
gardens was distinctly the work of Herod the Great, it will perhaps
not be very wrong to ascribe the construction of the aqueduct, with its remark-
able syphon, to that monarch. The only known instance of a similar syphon is
at Patara, in Asia Minor, but it does not show such high constructive skill as that at Jerusalem.
117
JERUSALEM FROM THE SOUTH.
Showing the position of Bir Eyub (Job's Well) just below the junction of the Kedron and
Hinnom Valleys.
statues, through which the water ran out." This seems to imply
the constant presence of running water; and as the palace with its
gardens was distinctly the work of Herod the Great, it will perhaps
not be very wrong to ascribe the construction of the aqueduct, with its remark-
able syphon, to that monarch. The only known instance of a similar syphon is
at Patara, in Asia Minor, but it does not show such high constructive skill as that at Jerusalem.