title: C-13

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim C13

title: C-13


mmsType: Item

field: dateIssued

keyDate: yes

point: start

point: end

title: Nâblus and Gerizim from the south-western slopes of Ebal, just above a broad belt of olive-trees. The whole extent of the city and the western approaches to it are shown.

sourceSystem: mms

namePart: Wilson, Charles William, Sir (1836-1905)

type: personal

authority: naf

namePart: Woodward, John Douglas (1846-1924)

usage: primary

type: geographic

authority: lcsh

text: Gerizim, Mount (West Bank)

text: Nablus

type: statement of responsibility

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

supplied: no

text: Wood engravings

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collectionTitle: Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt.


title: C-14

originInfo: [Date Unavailable]

type: topic

authority: lctgm

text: Cuneiform

type: citation/reference

text: Oppenheim C14

title: C-14

typeOfResource:
three dimensional object
still image

collectionTitle: Wilberforce Eames Babylonian collection.


title: C-15

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim C15

title: C-15


title: Ancient copy of the Samaritan Pentateuch.  In a silver-gilt case; it is protected by a red satin cover embroidered with inscriptions in gold thread

namePart: Harley

text: Torah scrolls

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: C-16

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim C16

title: C-16


title:
The
    hill of Samaria.  The road by which it is approached from the south passes through an olive-grove and under a ruined aqueduct

text: Aqueducts

text: West Bank

text: Sabastiyah (Israel)

text: Roads

text: West Bank

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: C-20

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim C20

title: C-20


title: Moslem sanctuary above the reputed tomb of St. John, Samaria, within the ruined walls of a church dedicated to St. John, now used as a mosque

authority: aat

text: churches

text: Israel

text: Sabastiyah

type: name

nameType: personal

text: John, the Baptist, Saint

text: Tomb

text: Mosques

text: Israel

text: Sabastiyah

text: Prayer

text: Islam

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D01

title: D-1


title: Part of the colonnade which once encircled Samaria. On the south side, near to the west end, a great number of columns are still standing

text: Working animals

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: Sabastiyah

text: Columns

text: Israel

text: Sabastiyah

text: Cattle

text: Israel

text: Sabastiyah

text: Plowing

text: Israel

text: Sabastiyah

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-2

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D02

title: D-2


title:
The
    southern expanse of the plain of Esdraelon, from Jenîn.  The whole extent of the plain is now called Merj ibn Amîr (the Meadow of the Son of Amîr)

text: Esdraelon, Plain of (Israel)

text: Mosques

text: Jenin

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D03

title: D-3


title:
The
    plain of Dothan, from an isolated hill called Tell Dôthân, on the south side of the plain

text: Dothan Valley (West Bank)

text: Wells

text: West Bank

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-5

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D05

title: D-5


title: Jenîn, the ancient en Gannim, from the hill above the cemetery, showing one of the outfalls of the stream which traverses the town

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D06

title: D-6


title:
The
    mosque of Jenîn.  Surrounded by gardens; an aqueduct and fountain in the foreground

text: Aqueducts

text: Jenin

text: Fountains

text: Jenin

text: Jenin

text: Mosques

text: Jenin

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D08

title: D-8


title: Mount Tabor from "the Waters of Megiddo," formed by an important branch of the river Kishon, which traverses the "Plain of Megiddo"

text: Tabor, Mount (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

type: content

text: should waters and plain be capitalized? (in original, waters in caps, plain capitalized

text: Wood engravings


title: D-9

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D09

title: D-9


title: Khan el Lejjûn (the Roman Legio), the supposed site of Megiddo.  The old bridge proves that the waters of Megiddo were formidable in ancient times

text: Archaeological sites

text: Megiddo (Extinct city)

text: Bridges

text: Megiddo (Extinct city)

text: Historic sites

text: Megiddo (Extinct city)

text: Megiddo (Extinct city)

text: Streams

text: Israel

text: Megiddo (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D10

title: D-10


title: Tannach from the waters of Megiddo.  The modern village of Ta'anuk, on a rounded hill below the range of Carmel, plainly indicates the site of the old Canaanitish city

namePart: Whymper

text: Streams

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-12

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D12

title: D-12


title: Zerîn, the ancient Jezreel, called Esdrelon in the Book of Judith, and alluded to in crusading times as Parvum Gerinum

text: Working animals

text: Camels

text: Israel

text: Esdraelon, Plain of (Israel)

text: Mountains

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-13

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D13

title: D-13


title: Mount Tabor.

namePart: Willmore, Arthur (1814-1888)

text: churches

text: Middle East

text: Tabor, Mount (Israel)

text: Sheep

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Mount Tabor.


title: D-14

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D14

title: D-14


title: D-18

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D18

title: D-18


title: The castle of Zerîn (Jezreel), now used as a manzal or inn, literally "a place for unloading," open to all wayfarers

authority: tgm

text: Castles & palaces

text: Middle East

text: Taverns (Inns)

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: manzal in italics

text: Wood engravings


title: D-19

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D19

title: D-19


title: 'Ain Jalûd, the Fountain of Jezreel, known also as Gideon's Fountain.  It flows from a cavernous recess in the base of Jebel Fukû'a (Mount Gilboa), and spreads out at once into a fine limpid pool forty or fifty feet in diameter

text: Butterflies

text: Fountains

text: Israel

text: Mountains

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-20

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D20

title: D-20


title:
The
    hills of Samaria from Sûlem, the ancient Shunem.  Zerîn (Jezreel) appears upon the plain below, and in the foreground there is a characteristic example of the Cactus Opuntia (prickly pear) in blossom

text: Esdraelon, Plain of (Israel)

text: Samaria (West Bank : Region)

text: Prickly pears

text: Sleeping

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Cactus Opuntia in italics

text: Wood engravings


title: Mount Gilboa from Sûlem (Shunem).  The northern extremity of the range of Jebel Fukû'a (Gilboa) is shown; the highest point is crowned by the sanctuary of Neby Mezâr. In the foreground a woman is spinning cotton

namePart: Meeder, Philip (d. 1913)

text: Cities & towns

text: Middle East

text: Gilboa, Mount (Israel)

text: Mountains

text: Israel

text: Spinning

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-22

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D22

title: D-22


title: D-23

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D23

title: D-23


title: Mount Tabor from Nain, showing its south-western slopes, dotted with dwarf oaks, locust, arbutts, lentisk, and terebinth trees

text: Buildings

text: Israel

text: Nein

text: Children

text: Israel

text: Nein

text: Nein (Israel)

text: Women

text: Israel

text: Nein

text: Tabor, Mount (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-24

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D24

title: D-24


title: Entrance to the cave of Endor.  Between two rocks overshadowed by a fig-tree; the cave itself is apparently a natural one, and has within it a never-failing spring of water, which originated the name En Dôr (the "fountain of Dôr").

text: Containers

text: Caves

text: Israel

text: `En Dor

text: Men

text: Israel

text: `En Dor

text: Women

text: Israel

text: `En Dor

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D25

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D25

title: D-25

title: D-25


title:
The
    Fountain of the Virgin, Nazareth, on the eastern side of the town. A Bedouin sheikh with his attendant in the foreground carrying long tufted spears. Women filling water-jars and cleansing their garments by soaking and beating them with strong bats made of wood.

text: Containers

text: Horses

text: Israel

text: Nazareth

text: Fountains

text: Israel

text: Nazareth

text: Laundry

text: Israel

text: Nazareth

text: Mary's Well (Nazareth, Israel)

text: Men

text: Israel

text: Nazareth

text: Women

text: Israel

text: Nazareth

text: Water supply

text: Israel

text: Nazareth

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-26

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D26

title: D-26


title: Mosque at Nazareth, a Bedouin bargaining with a seller of fruit, and a group of stonemasons at work, with their hammers characteristically in their left hands

text: Food vendors

text: Israel

text: Nazareth

text: Mosques

text: Israel

text: Nazareth

text: Nazareth (Israel)

text: Stone-cutting

text: Israel

text: Nazareth

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: D-27

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim D27

title: D-27


title:
The
    traditional Mount of Precipitation, Nazareth.

text: Campfires

text: Mountains

text: Israel

text: Precipitation, Mount of (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E01

title: E-1


title: View from the summit of the hill N.W. of Nazareth.  This hill is one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight feet above the level of the sea, and is crowned by a dilapidated Mohammedan sanctuary called Neby Sa'în

text: Shrines

text: Israel

text: Nazareth

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-2

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E02

title: E-2


title: Nazareth from the south, now called En Nâsirah. The large building on the hill of Neby Sa'în is the English Orphanage for Girls

namePart: Johnstone, J.

text: Nazareth (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E03

title: E-3


title: E-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E04

title: E-4


title: The Vale of Nazareth.

namePart: French, W.

text: Hills

text: Israel

text: Valleys

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: The Vale of Nazareth.


title: E-5

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E05

title: E-5


title: A Galilean hamlet near Nazareth.  A garden-house in the foreground, with a birket, or raised pool, adjoining it; water flows from the pool into little channels which traverse the garden

text: Flowers

text: Gardens

text: Middle East

text: Villages

text: Middle East

text: Reservoirs

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E06

title: E-6


title: Mount Carmel from the castle at Sefûrîyeh, the Sepphoris of Josephus.  The Roman name was Diocæsarea. The village lies on the south-west side of the hill; on the north side are the ruins of a church built by the crusaders on the supposed site of the home of the parents of the Virgin.

text: Carmel, Mount (Israel)

text: Forts & fortifications

text: Sepphoris (Extinct city)

text: Ruins

text: Israel

text: Sepphoris (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-7

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E07

title: E-7


title: Mount Tabor.  Called by the Arabs Jebel et Tûr (mountain of light or purity), the name which they also give to the Mount of Olives

text: Tabor, Mount (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E08

title: E-8


title: E-9

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E09

title: E-9


title: Tiberias.

namePart: Brandard, Edward Paxman (1819-1898)

authority: ulan

text: Tiberias (Israel)

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Tiberias.


title: E-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E10

title: E-10


title: Bâb el Hawa (gate of the wind), on the summit of Mount Tabor. It was formerly part of a mediæval fortress, but now serves as an approach to the Latin monastery.

text: Gates

text: Israel

text: Tabor, Mount (Israel)

text: Ruins

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-11

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E11

title: E-11


title: Kefr Kenna, the traditional Cana of Galilee.  Pleasantly situated on an eminence on the south side of the fertile plain of Bûttauf. It contains about six hundred inhabitants, half of whom are Moslems and half Greek Christians.

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-12

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E12

title: E-12


title: The Well at Kefr Kenna.  The sculptured sarcophagus in the foreground is used as a trough for cattle

text: Goats

text: Middle East

text: Wells

text: Middle East

text: Sarcophagi

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-13

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E13

title: E-13


title: The Shrine of Neby Yûnas, at El Meshhad.  This is one of the many Moslem sanctuaries in Syria dedicated to the Prophet Jonah

text: Jonah (Biblical prophet)

text: Tomb

text: Shrines

text: Middle East

text: Prayer

text: Islam

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-14

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E14

title: E-14


title: The Horns of Hattîn (Kûrûn Hattîn).  The summit of the eastern horn is a little circular plain; and the top of the lower ridge between the two horns is also level

text: Flowers

text: Hattin, Battle of, Israel, 1187

text: Historic sites

text: Mountains

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-15

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E15

title: E-15


title: E-16

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E16

title: E-16


title: Northern end of the Sea of Galilee, from the Castle of Tiberias.

text: Castles & palaces

text: Israel

text: Tiberias

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Ruins

text: Israel

text: Tiberias

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-19

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E19

title: E-19


title: Mosque of Tiberias (Tûbarîyeh).  This is a good example of the appearance of "grass on house-tops."

text: Buildings

text: Israel

text: Tiberias

text: Minarets

text: Israel

text: Tiberias

text: Mosques

text: Israel

text: Tiberias

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-20

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E20

title: E-20


field: dateCreated

title: Castle of Tiberias (Tûbarîyeh), showing the damage done by the earthquake of 1837

text: Castles & palaces

text: Israel

text: Tiberias

text: Ruins

text: Israel

text: Tiberias

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-21

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E21

title: E-21


title: Hot baths of Tiberias (Hûmmâm Tûbarîyeh), with the town of Tiberias and Khân Minyeh in the distance. The interior of the public bath is shown, with its pierced dome and marble pavement.

namePart: Filmer, John

text: bathing

text: Israel

text: Tiberias

text: Tiberias (Israel)

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Public baths

text: Israel

text: Tiberias

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-22

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E22

title: E-22


title: The Valley of Pigeons (Wâdy el Hamâm).  The bed of this picturesque valley runs towards the Lake of Tiberias just north of Mejdel

text: Caves

text: Israel

text: Valleys

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-23

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E23

title: E-23


title: The Kûl'at ibn Ma'ân, on the north-west side of the Valley of Pigeons. This castle consists of caverns connected by passages; opposite to it stands Irbid, the ancient Arbela

namePart: Palmer, William James

text: Caves

text: Israel

text: Mountains

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-24

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E24

title: E-24


title: Magdala (Mejdel).  Beyond the village is the fertile plain of Gennesaret. It is three miles long and one mile in width.

text: Villages

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-25

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E25

title: E-25


title: E-26

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E26

title: E-26


title: Fishermen on the Sea of Galilee.  The lake contains many good kinds of fish, some of which, it is said, do not occur elsewhere except in tropical climates

text: Boats

text: Israel

authority: tgn

text: Tiberias, Lake

text: Clothing & dress

text: Israel

text: Tiberias, Lake

text: Fishermen

text: Israel

text: Tiberias, Lake

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Rowing

text: Israel

text: Tiberias, Lake

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-27

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E27

title: E-27


title:
The
    Plain of Gennesaret, from Khân Minyeh.  The town of Tiberias in the distance, and Mejdel (Magdala) on the right, at the southern extremity of the plain

text: Flowers

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Plains

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-28

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E28

title: E-28


title:
The
    Sea of Galilee from 'Ain et Tîn, the fountain of the fig-tree, near Khân Minyeh, the supposed site of Capernaum.

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Showing traces of an aqueduct which conveyed water from 'Ain et Tâbighah (the supposed site of Bethsaida) to the Plain of Gennesaret; it is now used as a road. In the marsh by the fountain the papyrus flourishes.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-29

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E29

title: E-29


title: On the shore of the lake, at Et Tâbighah, the supposed site of Bethsaida, an oleander in full bloom grows among the rocks, and storks are characteristically hovering over the lake

text: Bethsaida (Extinct city)

text: Boats

text: Israel

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Storks

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-30

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E30

title: E-30


title:
The
    Sea of Galilee from Et Tâbighah, the supposed site of Bethsaida.  The dilapidated mill in the foreground is one of several which were built here by the celebrated Sheikh Dhaher el 'Amr, to utilise the copious streams for which this place is famous

text: Bethsaida (Extinct city)

text: Mills

text: Bethsaida (Extinct city)

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Ruins

text: Israel

text: Bethsaida (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-31

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E31

title: E-31


title: E-32

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E32

title: E-32


title: View from Tell Hûm, with fishing-boat.  There is no sign of any harbour having been constructed here, and in stormy weather it would be difficult to effect a landing at this spot

text: Fishing boats

text: Israel

text: Tiberias, Lake

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: E-33

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim E33

title: E-33


title:
The
    ruins of Tell Hûm.  By several authorities the place is regarded as the site of Capernaum. The principle building, of which remains exist, was constructed of white limestone, but the ruins around it are of black basalt.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Capernaum (Extinct city)

text: Capernaum (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F01

title: F-1


title: Caverns in the cliffs of Wâdy Leimôn.  The upper portion of Wâdy el Amûd, the Valley of the Column

text: Cliffs

text: Middle East

text: Caves

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-2

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F02

title: F-2


title: The cliffs of Wâdy Leimôn, pierced with holes in which a great variety of birds find safe retreat. The bed of the valley is in some places very narrow and difficult to traverse.

namePart: Lauderbach, James W.

text: Cliffs

text: Middle East

text: Valleys

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F03

title: F-3


title: Safed, one of the four holy places of the Jews in Palestine; showing the Jewish quarter on the western and north-western side of the hill, just below the castle

namePart: Johnston, J. (fl. 188-)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F04

title: F-4


title: Castle of Safed, on the northern crest of the hill, with the Moslem quarter in the foreground

text: Castles & palaces

text: Israel

text: Tsefat

text: Minarets

text: Israel

text: Tsefat

text: Tsefat (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F06

title: F-6


title: F-7

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F07

title: F-7


title: Ancient synagogue, Meirôn, situated on the top of an overhanging cliff, which was levelled artificially. Only the south front is now standing.

namePart: Badoureau, Ed.

text: Synagogues

text: Israel

text: Meron

text: Ruins

text: Israel

text: Meron

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F08

title: F-8


title: Jewish shrine at Meirôn.  The town of Safed appears on the hill beyond, and on the right there is a glimpse of the Sea of Galilee. During the annual festival pilgrims burn shawls, robes, and kerchiefs, more or less costly, at this venerated shrine.

text: Meron (Israel)

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Shrines

text: Israel

text: Meron

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F10

title: F-10


title: Remains of a synagogue at Kefr Beirim.  The village of Beirim, with its remarkable ruins, stands on the summit of a peak north-west of Meirôn. Its present inhabitants are chiefly Maronites

text: Synagogues

text: Middle East

text: Ruins

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-11

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F11

title: F-11


title: Site of Kedesh Naphtali.  Marked by remains of buildings of Jewish and Roman origin, and by a small village called Kedes. The spring used by the villagers is shown in the foreground. Mount Hermon is seen in the distance.

namePart: Lachs?

text: Springs

text: Middle East

text: Ruins

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-12

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F12

title: F-12


title: F-19

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F19

title: F-19


title: Tomb at Kedes, the ancient Kedesh Naphtali.  Thirty-five feet square; piers at the corners support round arches twenty-one feet high. Between the arches were the places for internment, three between each and one on either side of the door. The arches were formerly walled up and the building was covered with a dome.

text: Donkeys

text: Middle East

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Middle East

text: Ruins

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Sarcophagi among the ruins of Kedesh Naphtali.  The one in the foreground is a good example of a sarcophagus with two receptacles.

text: Sarcophagi

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-20

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F20

title: F-20


title: F-21

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F21

title: F-21


title: First glimpse of the Lebanon range from the south, with the ruined fortress of Hunîn and its clusters of one-storied houses in the foreground

text: Forts & fortifications

text: Middle East

text: Mountains

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-22

text: Cuneiform

text: Umma, Ur III

title: F-22


title: Lake Hûleh (Waters of Merom) from Hunîn, looking towards the south-east, with the uneven table-land of Jaulân (Gaulanitis) in the distance

text: Lakes & ponds

text: Middle East

text: Ruins

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-23

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F23

title: F-23


title: The River Hasbâny, the northern tributary of the Jordan, fringed with oleanders and willows, and crossed by the Jisr el Ghûjar

text: Bridges

text: Middle East

text: Rivers

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-24

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F24

title: F-24


title: F-25

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F25

title: F-25


title:
The
    site of Laish, afterwards called Dan, the ancient northern limit of the Holy Land, at the most westernly source of the Jordan. This spot is now known as Tell el Kâdy (the Hill of the Judge), and here stands a sacred oak hung with votive offerings, with a tomb dedicated to Sheikh Merzûk.

text: Votive offerings

text: Dan (Extinct city)

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Israel

text: Dan (Extinct city)

text: Prayer

text: Islam

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-26

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F26

title: F-26


title:
The
    Jordan at Bâniâs (Cæsarea Philippi).  Bâniâs is merely the Arabic pronunciation of the ancient Panias of the Greeks and Romans. In the foreground is a peasant carrying a plough.

text: Plows

text: Baniyas (Damascus, Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-27

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F27

title: F-27


title: Remains of a Roman aqueduct at Bâniâs (Cæsarea Philippi), overgrown with thistles and reeds, and crowned with an evergreen oak

text: Archaeological sites

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Aqueducts

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Baniyas (Damascus, Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-28

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F28

title: F-28


title:
The
    most easterly source of the Jordan, Bâniâs (Cæsarea Philippi).  This place has justly been called a Syrian Tivoli. The cliff is of ruddy limestone mingled with basalt. On a platform of the rock stands the wely of Sheikh Khidr (Saint George)

text: Baniyas (Damascus, Syria)

text: Jordan River

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: F-29

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F29

title: F-29


title: F-30

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim F30

title: F-30


title: Sculptured niches dedicated to Pan, at Cæsarea Philippi, in the face of the cliff, south of the cavern from which the Jordan springs. A peasant with his double-reed Pandean pipes and his flock of long-eared sheep appropriately occupies the foreground.

text: Baniyas (Damascus, Syria)

text: Caves

text: Syria

text: Goats

text: Syria

text: Niches

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Panpipes

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G01

title: G-1


title: Bowers on the housetops at Bâniâs (Cæsarea Philippi).  The present village consists of fifty or sixty houses. In summer-time the inhabitants sleep in their bowers, nearly every house being provided with one or two.

namePart: Annin, Phineas F.

text: Baniyas (Damascus, Syria)

text: Houses

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Huts

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Villages

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: [huts made of branches on rooftops]

text: Wood engravings


title: G-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G03

title: G-3


title: Cæsarea Philippi.

namePart: Bertrand, C. (fl. 188-)

text: Archaeological sites

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Baniyas (Damascus, Syria)

text: Bridges

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Cæsarea Philippi.


title: G-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G04

title: G-4


title: The Castle of Subeibeh, known also as the Castle of Bâniâs

namePart: Wilson, Charles William, Sir (1836-1905)

text: Castles & palaces

text: Syria

text: Forts & fortifications

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-5

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G05

title: G-5


title: The citadel of the Castle of Subeibeh, from within the castle walls, which enclose an olive-grove. It is two thousand three hundred feet above the sea-level.

namePart: Woodward, John Douglas (1846-1924)

text: Castles & palaces

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G06

title: G-6


title: A cup of coffee on the heights of Subeibeh.  All the implements for preparing it are shown in the foreground - the iron saucer in which to roast the berries, the pestle and mortar for pounding them, and the water boiling on the fire of crackling twigs

text: Clothing & dress

text: Syria

text: Coffee

text: Syria

text: Eating & drinking

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-7

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G07

title: G-7


title: G-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G08

title: G-8


title: Moslem graves under 'The Oaks of Bashan.'  At Tell Hazûr, near Bâniâs. There appears to have been a complete circle of evergreen oaks here, surrounding a temple or an altar. It is still regarded as a holy "place," and is now dedicated to Sheikh Othmân of Hazûr. A group of ruins called Hazûr exists not far from this spot.

namePart: Harley

text: Hazor (Extinct city)

text: Oaks

text: Hazor (Extinct city)

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Israel

text: Hazor (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-9

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G09

title: G-9


title: Mount Hermon

namePart: Harper, Henry A. (Henry Andrew) (1836-1900)

namePart: Bradshaw, Samuel, engraver

text: Hermon, Mount (Lebanon and Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Mount Hermon

text: Steel engravings


title: G-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G10

title: G-10


title: The Nahr Leddân, an affluent of the Jordan.  It joins the stream from Bâniâs four miles south of Tell el Kâdy

text: Stone bridges

text: Middle East

text: Rivers

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-11

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G11

title: G-11


title: Pottery, Râsheiyet el Fûkhâr; this place, as its name implies, is famous for its potter's clay. Its furnaces are dome-shaped and capable of burning enormous jars. The potter, mounted on a high seat, sets the wheel in motion with his foot and shapes the clay with his hand. The man beyond is adding handles to the jars.

text: Potteries

text: Middle East

text: Pottery

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-12

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G12

title: G-12


title: The ruins of the temple at Hebbâriyeh.  Showing the eastern portal, which faced Mount Hermon, exactly opposite the valley of Shib'a

text: Flowers

text: Temples

text: Middle East

text: Ruins

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-13

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G13

title: G-13


title: Wâdy Shib'a, from Hebbâriyeh.  The village of Shib'a may be seen on the summit of the second peak; it is the highest inhabited place in Mount Hermon (Jebel esh Sheikh)

text: Containers

text: Buildings

text: Middle East

text: Hermon, Mount (Lebanon and Syria)

text: Villages

text: Lebanon and Syria

text: Hermon, Mount

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-14

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G14

title: G-14


title: G-15

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G15

title: G-15


title:
The
    gateway, Hâsbeiya.  The town is two thousand two hundred feet above the sea-level, on the west side of an amphitheatre of hills covered to their summits with vineyards, orchards, and olive groves

text: Hasbayyâ (Lebanon)

text: Cities & towns

text: Lebanon

text: Gates

text: Lebanon

text: Hasbayyâ

text: Minarets

text: Lebanon

text: Hasbayyâ

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-16

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G16

title: G-16


title: The Palace of Hâsbeiya.  Scene of a terrible massacre of Christians on June 3rd, 1860. The fountain if Hâsbeiya forms a copious stream which flows into the Hâsbany.

text: Castles & palaces

text: Lebanon

text: Hasbayyâ

text: Historic sites

text: Lebanon

text: Hasbayyâ

text: Stone bridges

text: Lebanon

text: Hasbayyâ

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-19

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G19

title: G-19


title: El Kûweh, the natural bridge over the Lîtâny.  It is formed of a number of fallen rocks, which have left a passage of about one hundred feet in height for the stream below

namePart: Measom, A.

text: Rock formations

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-20

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G20

title: G-20


title: The gorge of the Lîtâny.  The precipices are in some places nearly one thousand feet in height. The banks are overgrown with sycamores, myrtles, and various shrubs, and eagles build their nests in the inaccessible cliffs.

namePart: Meeder, Philip (d. 1913)

text: Canyons

text: Lebanon

text: Rivers

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-21

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G21

title: G-21


title: Mount Hermon from Râsheiya.  The name Hermon (like harem) signifies "unapproachable," or "the holy." The Sidonians called this Mount Sirion. The Arabic name Jebel esh Sheikh means "mountain of the aged" or "of the white-headed." It is also called Jebel eth Thelj, the "snow mountain."

text: Cities & towns

text: Middle East

text: Hermon, Mount (Lebanon and Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-22

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G22

title: G-22


title: The Castle of Râsheiya.  The scene of a terrible massacre of Christians on June 4th, 1860

text: Castles & palaces

text: Middle East

text: Historic sites

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-23

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G23

title: G-23


title: Medallion on the temple at Rûkhleh, outside the south wall, near the east corner; it is five feet in diameter. The upper part has been destroyed by gunpowder. The neighbouring village is inhabited by Druses

text: Archaeological sites

text: Middle East

text: Medallions (Ornament areas)

text: Temples

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-24

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G24

title: G-24


title: The temple at Deir el 'Ashâir.  It stands on a platform of massive masonry, one hundred and twenty-six feet long by sixty-nine feet wide, and about twenty feet high on the eastern side, which faces Mount Hermon. The village is inhabited by a few families of Druses and Christians.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Middle East

text: Temples

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-26

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G26

title: G-26


title: G-27

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G27

title: G-27


title:
The
    gorge of the Bûrada (Abana), through which the new French road approaches Damascus.  At the outlet of this gorge the stream is divided into seven branches, two of which supply the fountain in the city, and the rest are used to irrigate the fields and gardens.

namePart: Orr, Nathaniel

text: Barada River (Syria)

text: Bridges

text: Syria

text: Canyons

text: Syria

text: Rivers

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-28

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G28

title: G-28


title: Entrance to Damascus, by the road through the Merj, or meadow, west of the city. The large building on the right, with its many domes and two slender minarets, is the Tekîyeh, or hospital for pilgrims, built by Sultan Selim I in A.D. 1516.

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Rivers

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Roads

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: G-30

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G30

title: G-30


title: Rivers of Damascus.

namePart: Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich, 1808-1894 (1808-1894)

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Mosques

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Rivers of Damascus.


title: G-32

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim G32

title: G-32


title: Roadside café, Damascus.  The man in the foreground is selling thin loaves of wheaten bread, slightly spread with butter and grape syrup and sprinkled with sessame seed. He calls out every now and then, in a plaintive voice, "God is the nourisher! Buy my bread!"

text: Cafes

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Bread

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Food vendors

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Leisure

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H01

title: H-1


title: H-2

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H02

title: H-2


title:
A
    Mueddin chanting the call to prayer from a gallery of the Minaret of 'Isa (Jesus).  This minaret (on the summit of which Moslem tradition says that Jesus will appear on the Judgement Day) is at the south-east corner of the Great Mosque, Damascus, and is two hundred and fifty feet in height. The beautiful octagonal minaret at the south-west corner is called El Gharbîyeh. A third minaret, not shown in this illustration, is called El 'Arûs (the Bride).

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Minarets

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H03

title: H-3


title: Kubbet el Khazneh (Dome of the Treasures), Damascus.  In the west part of the court of the Great Mosque. It is said to contain ancient books and other relics which are held sacred.

namePart: Johnstone, J.

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Mosques

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H04

title: H-4


title: H-5

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H05

title: H-5


title:
The
    tomb of Saladin, Damascus.  This mausoleum, which is just outside the north-west corner of the Great Mosque, is jealously guarded, and it is difficult to gain access to it. The south-western minaret of the Great Mosque can be seen through the archway.

text: Arches

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Minarets

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Stone-cutting

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title:
The
    Mosque of Sabunîyeh, Damascus, built of course of black basalt and white limestone

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Mosques

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H06

title: H-6


title: H-7

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H07

title: H-7


title: Gold and Silver Smiths' Bazaar, Damascus.  A large nearly square court; the blackened roof is supported by arches and massive piers. It is so noisy that sales are often effected by means of signs. The man in the foreground holds up three fingers to show that he will sell a certain article for three pieces of money, the buyer (a veiled woman) offers two.

text: Bazaars

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: City & town life

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Shopping

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Selling

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H08

title: H-8


title:
The
    Mohammedan day school in the Shoemakers' Bazaar.  The pupils are seated on the floor of a shop, each holding a wooden tablet, on which the lesson is written; and they intone it together, rocking themselves to and fro all the while

text: Shoemakers

text: Bazaars

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Madrasahs

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H10

title: H-10


title:
The
    Arch of Triumph, Damascus.  At the western side of the Great Mosque, as seen from a roof of a house in the Book Bazaar. When entire its width was eighty feet and its height seventy feet.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-11

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H11

title: H-11


title: Bridge in the Shoemakers' Bazaar, Damascus.  A camel and a little group of people can be seen through the grated window, passing over the bridge. In the foreground there is a pleasantly situated café.

text: Bridges

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Bazaars

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Rivers

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-12

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H12

title: H-12


title:
A
    narrow by-way in Damascus.  The upper stories and projecting windows are constructed of poplar stems, filled in with sun-dried bricks, placed diagonally and plastered over with clay

text: Camels

text: Syria

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Houses

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Windows

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Streets

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-13

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H13

title: H-13


title:
The
    citadel, Damascus.  A large oblong structure surrounded by a moat. There are twelve projecting towers, two of which are shown above. In the foreground there is a café, in the upper balcony of which a turbaned player holds up a winning card exultingly.

text: Card games

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Forts & fortifications

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Towers

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-14

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H14

title: H-14


title: H-16

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H16

title: H-16


title: Mosque of the Tekîyeh, or Hospice of the Sultan Selim.  Its position is shown in the illustration on page 381. The court is planted with walnut-trees. The cloisters and interior of the mosque are decorated with exceedingly fine glazed tiles.

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-17

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H17

title: H-17


title: Makbaret Bâb es Saghîr (Burial-Ground of the Little Gate).  Tradition says that two of the wives of Mohammed were interned here. A modern domed structure marks the spot.

text: Cemeteries

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-19

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H19

title: H-19


title:
The
    Horse Bazaar, Damascus, as it appears on market days.  In the foreground is a Bedouin sheikh on horseback, fully equipped. Another Bedouin has just dismounted to greet a friend, exemplifying the words, "and he fell upon his neck and kissed him."

text: Buildings

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Horses

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Markets

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-20

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H20

title: H-20


title:
The
    large plane-tree, Damascus.  It is nearly forty feet in circumference. A peasant and his plough are resting against it, and in its shade a carperter is working, steadying his bow saw with his naked foot.

namePart: Dana, William Jay (1839-1913)

text: Pitchers

text: Carpenters

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Trees

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-21

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H21

title: H-21


title: H-22

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H22

title: H-22


title:
A
    street in Damascus.

text: City & town life

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Streets

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: 1874 at lower left in print

title: A street in Damascus.


title: H-23

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H23

title: H-23


title: Houses on the city wall, Damascus.  On the south-east side, belonging to the Jewish quarter. The Bâb Kisân, which is not far from this spot, is now a disused and closed-up gate. It stands on the site of a much more ancient one.

text: City walls

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Gates

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Houses

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: inset image with title in it "Bab Kisân"

text: Wood engravings


title: H-24

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H24

title: H-24


title: Bâb Shurky (East Gate), Damascus, an ancient Roman portal with three arches. The central and southern ones are now built up; the northern arch, now in use, is concealed by the Saracenic Gate, at right-angles with it. The Great Mosque can be seen in the distance.

text: City & town life

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: City walls

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

nameType: corporate

text: Jâmi` al-Umawî al-Kabîr (Damascus, Syria)

text: Towers

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-25

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H25

title: H-25


title: H-26

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H26

title: H-26


title:
'The
    street called Straight," it runs westward from the East Gate, dividing the Christian from the Jewish quarter. The Mohammedans call it "Sultan's Highway."

text: Architectural elements

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: City & town life

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Streets

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-27

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H27

title: H-27


title: Bâb Tûma, the Gate of Thomas.  An inscription states that it was erected in A.H. 634 (A.D. 1237). It leads out of the city towards the north-east road, the caravan route to Aleppo and Palmyra.

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Gates

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Towers

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Streets

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-28

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H28

title: H-28


title:
A
    street barber's stall, with a ragged canopy ready for use as protection from sun or rain. The street barber is only employed by those who are too poor to go to the commodious barbers' shops.

namePart: Closson, William Baxter Palmer (1848-1926)

text: Barbering

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Clothing & dress

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Damascus (Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-29

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H29

title: H-29


title: Bedouins buying spears in the Sûk es Sinânîyeh, which is the great emporium for all the requirements of Bedouins and peasants, including all kinds of primitive weapons and clothing

text: Bedouins

text: Spears

text: Bedouins

text: Clothing & dress

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-30

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H30

title: H-30


title: Reception room of a Damascus house, showing the lower portion of it only, with its fountain and marble pavement. The upper part of the room, where guests are received, is eighteen inches higher, and is furnished with cushions and carpets. An incense burner is standing at the extreme edge of the daïs.

namePart: Whymper

text: Fountains

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Houses

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Interiors

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-31

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H31

title: H-31


title: H-33

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H33

title: H-33


title: A street drinking-fountain, Damascus.  The lady who is riding en cavalier wears a dark muslin veil, called a mandîl, which quite conceals her features; her outer garment, an izzar, is like a large sheet of fine white calico, and in this she envelopes herself completely.

text: Architectural decorations & ornaments

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Clothing & dress

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Food vendors

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Fountains

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Streets

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Greek inscription on an ancient and disused doorway of the Great Mosque.  In the south wall; it can only be seen from the roof of the Silversmiths' Bazaar. The words are, "Thy kingdom, O Christ, is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations."

text: Architectural decorations & ornaments

text: Syria

text: Damascus

text: Inscriptions, Greek

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-34

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H34

title: H-34


title: H-35

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H35

title: H-35


title: A Bedouin of the Haurân. Bedouins (more correctly Bedawîn) occupy the north-west district of the Haurân; the plain is inhabited by peasants, and the Druses for many centuries have colonised the mountain range

text: Bedouins

text: Spears

text: Camels

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-36

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H36

title: H-36


title: Ruined tombs, Palmyra, in the Wâdy el Kûbûr. The largest one, on the right, is eighty feet high. There is an inscription on it which states that it was built as a family tomb by Elabelos, in the Seleucian year 414 (A.D. 102).

text: Bedouins

text: Campfires

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Tents

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Tadmur (Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-37

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H37

title: H-37


title: Grand Colonnade, Palmyra, from the triumphal arch.  Showing the syenite columns of the Tetrapylon; the prostate one is thirty feet long and three feet in diameter. In the distance the ancient city wall, known as the Wall of Justinian, can be traced.

namePart: Palmer, William James

text: Flowers

text: Archaeological sites

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Colonnades

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Tadmur (Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-44

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H44

title: H-44


title: Western side of the ruins of the Temple of the Sun, Palmyra, showing part of the double colonnade which formed the cloisters of the temple. The brackets projecting from the columns, about two-thirds of the way up, formerly supported statues.

text: Colonnades

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Temples

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-45

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H45

title: H-45


title: Ruins of a mausoleum near the north-western end of the Great Colonnade, Palmyra.  In the interior there is a large sarcophagus richly ornamented with sculptured satyrs and garlands of flowers and fruit; another mausoleum near it, in better preservation, is shown on page 435.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Tadmur (Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: H-46

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim H46

title: H-46


title: Palmyra.

namePart: French, W.

text: Campfires

text: Archaeological sites

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Colonnades

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Tadmur (Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Palmyra.


title: I-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I01

title: I-1


title: I-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I03

title: I-3


title:
The
    triumphal arch, Palmyra.  It is about three hundred yards from the north-western corner of the Temple of the Sun, and formed the triple entrance to the Great Colonnade, which appears to have consisted of a broad central avenue with narrow ways on each side.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Arches

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Colonnades

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Tadmur (Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I04

title: I-4


title: View of Palmyra, from the Grand Colonnade, showing the castle in the distance.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Colonnades

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Castles & palaces

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Syria

text: Tadmur

text: Tadmur (Syria)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: The building at the end of the colonnade is a grand mausoleum; each of the six columns of its pedimented portico is a monolith. Round three sides of the interior there are deep sepulchral recesses.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-5

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I05

title: I-5


title: Wâdy Barada, from Bessîma.  The village is situated in a little basin formed by a bend of the river, and is entirely shut in by high ledges of rock. The soil is everywhere carefully cultivated. In the foreground the villagers are winnowing grain.

text: Winnowing

text: Syria

text: Villages

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I06

title: I-6


title: 'Ain Fîjeh. this fountain issues from a cavern with two openings, over one of which there is an arch. It forms at once a rapid stream thirty feet wide and three of four feet deep, which rushes over a rocky bed for eighty yards and then joins the Barada.

text: Waterfalls

text: Syria

text: Streams

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-7

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I07

title: I-7


title: Wayside tombs in Wâdy Barada.  Where walnut and fig trees yield abundantly, and the oleander flourishes. Rows of poplar trees peering out of the gorge mark its course.

text: Flowers

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I08

title: I-8


title: I-9

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I09

title: I-9


title: Gathering figs on the Barada, near 'Ain Fîjeh.  Here the effects of irrigation are strikingly seen; as far as the canals and ducts are carried all is luxuriant, but immediately above the line all is parched and bare

text: Barada River (Syria)

text: Fig trees

text: Syria

text: Rivers

text: Syria

text: Harvesting

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I10

title: I-10


title: Tombs and aqueduct, Wâdy Barada.  Here the gorge intersects the central ridge of Anti-Lebanon; but as it makes a sharp turn, we only see a deep recess in the mountain-side dotted with tombs

text: Aqueducts

text: Syria

text: Canyons

text: Syria

text: Mountains

text: Syria

text: Rock-cut tombs

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-13

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I13

title: I-13


title:
The
    cliffs of Sûk Wâdy, Barada.  A modern bridge of a single arch spans the river, and the road crosses from the right to the left bank. This is the narrowest part of the gorge, and the cliffs that shut it in are not more than a hundred feet apart.

text: Barada River (Syria)

text: Bridges

text: Syria

text: Cliffs

text: Syria

text: Rivers

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-15

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I15

title: I-15


title: Road and tablets cut in the cliff of Wâdy Barada.  On the north or left bank of the river

text: Barada River (Syria)

text: Bridges

text: Syria

text: Cliffs

text: Syria

text: Inscriptions

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-16

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I16

title: I-16


title: Waterfall of the Upper Barada, near Zebedâny.  Here the stream is augmented by the outfall of Wâdy el Kûrn

text: Barada River (Syria)

text: Bridges

text: Syria

text: Waterfalls

text: Syria

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-17

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I17

title: I-17


title: The tomb of Noah, at a place called Kerak Nûh. The so-called tomb is probably a portion of an ancient aqueduct.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Middle East

text: Flowers

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-21

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I21

title: I-21


title: An Arab shrine, south-west of Ba'albek.  Called Kubbet Dûris, after the neighbouring village of Dûris; it is a modern structure formed of eight ancient granite columns clumsily set up and surmounted by a heavy architrave. An enormous sarcophagus, standing on end, serves as the mihrab, or Muslim prayer niche.

text: Goatherds

text: Middle East

text: Shrines

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-22

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I22

title: I-22


title: I-23

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I23

title: I-23


title: Entrance to the ruins of Ba'albek.  At the south-west corner, through a long vaulted passage like a railway tunnel under the great platform. Two of these great vaults run parallel with each other, from east to west, and are connected by a third running at right angles to them from north and south.

text: Bedouins

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Vaults (Architecture)

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-24

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I24

title: I-24


title:
The
    Temple of the Sun, Ba'albek.  Showing the north and west sides. The columns, including the capitals, are forty-six and a-half feet in height; they are ten feet from the walls, and support an entablature connected with the cella by large slabs of stone

text: Temples

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-25

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I25

title: I-25


title: Lebanon range and Baalbec

text: Temples

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Lebanon range and Baalbec

text: Steel engravings


title: I-26

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I26

title: I-26


title: Under the peristyle, Temple of the Sun, Ba'albek, on the west side, looking towards Lebanon.

text: Mountains

text: Lebanon

text: Temples

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: peristyles

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-27

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I27

title: I-27


title: I-28

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I28

title: I-28


title:
The
    fallen column, Ba'albek.  In the peristyle on the south side of the Temple of the Sun, where only four connected columns remain in situ. Several shafts have fallen from the temple platform into the little orchard below.

namePart: Badoureau, Ed.

text: Columns

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Temples

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: in situ in italics

text: Wood engravings


title: I-29

text: Cuneiform

type: admin

text: Eames I29

title: I-29


title: South wing of the portico of the Great Temple, Ba'albek.  The floor of the portico is twenty feet above the level of the adjoining ground, and it is probable that it was approached from the east by a broad flight of steps

text: Campfires

text: Temples

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-32

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I32

title: I-32


title: I-34

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I34

title: I-34


title: Gateway to the Temple of the Sun, Ba'albek.  It is twenty-one feet in width, and forty-two feet high. The modern masonry, which supports the displaced keystone, conceals the crested eagle carved upon its soffit.

text: Gates

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Temples

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Architectural decorations & ornaments

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-35

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I35

title: I-35


title: Ruined mosque, north of Ba'albek.  Rudely built of ancient materials. There are ten columns of polished red granite and eighteen limestone columns, all surmounted by richly carved limestone capitals.

text: Arcades (Architectural components)

text: Middle East

text: Capitals (Columns)

text: Middle East

text: Mosques

text: Middle East

text: Ruins

text: Middle East

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-36

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I36

title: I-36


title:
The
    six columns of the Great Temple, Ba'albek. The winter winds have almost destroyed the carving on the north side of the capitals; but the south side of the capitals and of the entablature, shown above, are in a good state of preservation

text: Colonnades

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Temples

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-37

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I37

title: I-37


title:
The
    south-east corner of the Temple of the Sun, Ba'albek.  At the east end of this temple there was a vestibule with a row of fluted columns within the outer line of plain columns; only two of these are now standing

text: Columns

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Temples

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-38

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I38

title: I-38


title: I-39

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I39

title: I-39


title:
The
    Temple of Venus, or circular temple in the village of Ba albek, not far from the south-east corner of the Acropolis. It is now converted into a Muslim shrine, and dedicated to El Barbara.

text: Leaves

text: Temples

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Shrines

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-40

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I40

title: I-40


title:
The
    large stone in the quarry, Ba'albek called the Hajr el Hûbla. It is sixty-eight feet four inches in length. On the under side it is cut away all round, remaining attached to the bed of the rock in the middle along its entire length.

text: Temples

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Tents

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Stone quarrying

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Rocks

text: Lebanon

text: Ba`labakk

text: Ba`labakk (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-41

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I41

title: I-41


title: A Cedar of Lebanon.  In the distance there is a glimpse of the Mediterranean Sea. The grove consists of about three hundred and fifty trees, the tallest of which are not more than seventy-eight feet in height. In the midst of the grove there is a Maronite chapel.

text: Cedar of Lebanon

text: Tents

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: I-42

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I42

title: I-42


title: I-43

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I43

title: I-43


title: In the grove of cedars, Lebanon. The group of cedars occupies the top of a hill with five culminating points of various sizes. The rock on which the trees grow is white limestone, and the decaying spines, cones, and other matter have formed a dark-coloured soil. In the background rise the snow-covered peaks of Dahr el Kodîb; the highest point is ten thousand and fifty feet above the sea-level.

text: Cedar of Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: shewing is the spelling in caption

text: Wood engravings


title: I-45

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I45

title: I-45


title:
The
    sea of Galilee, from the heights of Safed

namePart: D. Appleton and Company

type: corporate

text: Camels

text: Tsefat (Israel)

text: Tiberias, Lake (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Steel engravings


title: I-46

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I46

title: I-46


title: Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt vol. II.  The convent of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai

namePart: Wilson, Charles William, Sir (1836-1905)

text: Camels

text: Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.


title: I-47

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I47

title: I-47


title: Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt . . . Volume II [Half title]

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.


title: I-48

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I48

title: I-48


title: Contents

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Contents


title: I-49

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I49

title: I-49


title: I-50

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim I50

title: I-50


title: J-2

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim J02

title: J-2


title: List of illustrations

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: List of illustrations


title: J-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim J03

title: J-3


title: J-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim J04

title: J-4


title: J-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim J06

title: J-6


title: J-7

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim J07

title: J-7


title: A map of Palestine

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: A map of Palestine

text: Lithographs -- color  ?


title: J-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim J08

title: J-8


title: Hasrûn, a Maronite village of North Lebanon, on the summit of a precipice on the south side of the gorge of the Kashîda (the sacred river).

namePart: Woodward, John Douglas (1846-1924)

text: Villages

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: J-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Girsu, Ur III

text: Eames J10 and unpublished01 ?

title: J-10


title: The valley of the Kadîsha (the holy river), with  distant view of the Mediterranean Sea and El Mîna (Minet Tarâbalus), the port of Tripoli

text: Valleys

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK03

title: KK-3


title: Convent of the Mullawîyeh, or dancing dervishes, Tripoli, with a distant view of the snow crowned summits of Lebanon. In the foreground flows the Kadîsha (the sacred river), called also Nahr Abû Ali. On the pathway may be seen a water-wheel and two millst

text: Dervishes

text: Lebanon

text: Tripoli

text: Millstones

text: Tripoli (Lebanon)

text: Religious communities

text: Rivers

text: Lebanon

text: Tripoli

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK04

title: KK-4


title: KK-5

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK05

title: KK-5


title:
The
    castle of Tripoli, a stronghold of the crusaders. It was converted into an imperial penitentiary by Midhat Pasha when he was governor-general of Syria. It stands on a narrow ridge, which slopes on the west towards the town, and on the east to the bed of the Kadîsha.

text: Castles & palaces

text: Lebanon

text: Tripoli

text: Tripoli (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK06

title: KK-6


title: The castle of the Museilihah ("The palace of weapons"). It stands on a precipitous rock by the Nahr el Jozeh, in the middle of a wooded valley, and commands the pass. It was until recently occupied by a band of brigands, the terror of travellers.

namePart: Miller, W. (fl. ca. 1880)

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Castles & palaces

text: Lebanon

text: Stone bridges

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-7

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK07

title: KK-7


title: Northern Lebanon

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Northern Lebanon

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK08

title: KK-8


title: The natural bridge of Akura. On front of a cavern from which issues a strem called the Neb'a Ruweis. a triburary of the Adonis (Nahr Ibrahim).

text: Caves

text: Flowers

text: Lebanon

text: Stone bridges

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK10

title: KK-10


title: Cliffs of Akura, in the Mogherîye valley, Lebanon. Every available space in the valley is cultivated. On the ledges of the cliffs fruit-trees flourish and wheat is grown.

text: Dragonflies

text: Cliffs

text: Lebanon

text: Flowers

text: Lebanon

text: Lebanon

text: Valleys

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-11

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK11

title: KK-11


title: The fountain of Akfa (Apheca). Source of the Adonis riverr (Nafr Ibrahim). Close to this spot are the remains of a famous temple of Venus, which was destroyed by the order of Constantine.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Lebanon

text: Millstones

text: Waterfalls

text: Lebanon

text: Stone bridges

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-12

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK12

title: KK-12


title: KK-14

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK14

title: KK-14


title:
The
    gorge of the Kadîsha -- Lebanon

text: Canyons

text: Lebanon

text: Lebanon

text: Mountains

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: The gorge of the Kadîsha -- Lebanon

text: Steel engravings


title: KK-24

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK24

title: KK-24


title: The valley of the Adonis (Nahr Ibrahim). The scenery in this valley was not surpassed by any in Lebanon.  The hillsides are in many places clothed with pines and oak-trees, and groves of mulberry and fruit-trees border the stream.

text: Trees

text: Lebanon

text: Rivers

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.


title: KK-25

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK25

title: KK-25


title: Lebanon coast near the mouth of the Adonis river. The iron-stained soil of the sandstone strata is annually washed down into the river by the heavy winter rains, and the discolored stream can be traced far out into the blue sea. This gave rise to the belief that the river was tinged with the blood of Adonis, every year in memory of his death.

text: Coastlines

text: Bodies of water

text: Lebanon

text: Sailboats

text: Lebanese

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.


title: KK-26

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK26

title: KK-26


title: The natural bridge, Lebanon. It is called in Arabic "Jisr el Hajr" (The Bridge of Stone). It spans the chasm through which flows the Neb'a el Lebban (Fountain of Milk), one of the sources of the Nahr el Kelb (the Dog River).

text: Goatherds

text: Lebanon

text: Goats

text: Lebanon

text: Mountains

text: Lebanon

text: Rock formations

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-27

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK27

title: KK-27


title: Under the natural bridge, Lebanon. The stream, after passing under the bridge, descends the mountain-side through a glen like a huge fissure, and then dashes over a ledge of rock in sheets of foam.

text: Mountains

text: Lebanon

text: Streams

text: Lebanon

text: Rock formations

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-28

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK28

title: KK-28


title: KK-29

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK29

title: KK-29


title: The chasm of Neb'a el Lebban. Just above the Natural Bridge (Jisr el Hajr).

text: Bodies of water

text: Lebanon

text: Canyons

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: Roman bridge near Juneh. It spans a little stream called Ma'amiltein, which in the water flows from the hills to the beautiful bay of Juneh. Adjoining the bridge there is a Syrian khan.

text: Caravansaries

text: Lebanon

text: Mountains

text: Lebanon

text: Stone bridges

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: KK-30

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim KK30

title: KK-30


title: Limestone rocks, Ajeltûn, Lebanon. In this district, well named Kesrawan (Broken Region) is a chaos of rugged  mountains, which in some places assume grotesque and in others grand architectural forms. The belfry of the great Convent of Ajeltûn is shown in the background.

text: Kasrawan (Lebanon)

text: Rock formations

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: L-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L01

title: L-1


title: Beirût, from Jaita. A beautifully situated village north of the Dog River (Nahr el Kelb), on the heights above the gorge.  In the distance, beyond St. George's Bay, the sandy promontory of Beirût appears.

text: Bodies of water

text: Lebanon

text: Trees

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.


title: L-2

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L02

title: L-2


title: A Lebanon café. Pleasantly situated by a mountain stream and sheltered by the dense foliage of the carouba trees (Ceratonia siliqua). The presence of one of these wayside resting places always indicates a good site for an encampment, for it is sure to be near a supply of good water.

namePart: Harley

text: Cafes

text: Lebanon

text: Carob

text: Donkeys

text: Lebanon

text: Food

text: Lebanon

text: Streams

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: L-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L03

title: L-3


title: The slopes of Lebanon

text: Monasteries

text: Lebanon

text: Monasticism and religious orders, Maronite

text: Monks

text: Lebanon

text: Villages

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: The slopes of Lebanon

text: Wood engravings


title: L-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L04

title: L-4


title: L-5

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L05

title: L-5


title: Cliffs and sculptured tablets. On the rocky promontory whoch projects far into the sea, south of Nahr el Kelb (Dog River), rising to the height of about one hundred feet.

text: Bodies of water

text: Lebanon

text: Cliffs

text: Lebanon

text: Sculpture

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: L-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L06

title: L-6


title: Bay of Beirût

namePart: Cousen, Charles (1819-1889)

text: Buildings

text: Lebanon

text: Bodies of water

text: Lebanon

text: Sailboats

text: Lebanese

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Bay of Beirût

text: Steel engravings


title: L-7

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L07

title: L-7


title: The Nahr el Kelb (Dog River), and ancient bridge connected with the rock-cut coast. In the summer, the river is fordable here.

text: Buildings

text: Lebanon

text: Stone bridges

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: L-20

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L20

title: L-20


title: Modern aqueduct on the Nahr el Kelb near to which are the newly discovered Assyrian tablets relating to Nebuchadnezzar.

text: Aqueducts

text: Lebanon

text: Rivers

text: Lebanon

text: Pottery

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: L-22

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L22

title: L-22


title: Bath and café, Beirût

text: Cafes

text: Lebanon

text: Beirut

text: Fishing

text: Lebanon

text: Diving

text: Lebanon

text: Beirut

text: Swimming

text: Lebanon

text: Beirut

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Bath and café, Beirût

text: Wood engravings


title: L-23

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim L23

title: L-23


title: Pigeon rocks, Beirût. In the cliff from which these island rocks have broken away, there is an enormous cavern which can be entered by small boats.

text: Birds

text: Rock formations

text: Lebanon

text: Beirut

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M10

title: M-10


title: M-12

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M12

title: M-12


title: Beirût castle.  Built by the Crusaders, but partly with materials which had been used for earlier structures, for there are many granite columns introduced transversely into the lower part of the walls.

text: Bodies of water

text: Lebanon

text: Castles & palaces

text: Lebanon

text: Water pipes (Smoking)

text: Sailboats

text: Lebanese

text: Lebanon

text: Beirut

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-13

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M13

title: M-13


title: Sidon

namePart: Willmore, Arthur (1814-1888)

text: Camels

text: Buildings

text: Lebanon

text: Sidon

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Sidon (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Sidon

text: Steel engravings


title: M-16

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M16

title: M-16


title: Khan Neby Yûnas (The khan of the prophet Jonah). Adjoining a Muslim shrine sacred to his memory. Close to it there is a group of mulberry- trees, and beyond are groves of olives and fig trees belonging to the village of Neby Yûnas, also called El Jûjeh.

text: Caravansaries

text: Flowers

text: Lebanon

text: Jonah (Biblical prophet)

text: Shrines

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-17

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M17

title: M-17


title: M-18

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M18

title: M-18


title: The castle and the harbour of Saida, the ancient Sidon. Called Kul'at el Bahr (Castle on the Sea). It stands on a rocky island opposite the north-east end of the town, with which it is connected by an embankment with arches.

text: Castles & palaces

text: Lebanon

text: Sidon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-19

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M19

title: M-19


title: The citdel of Saida, the ancient Sidon. Now called Kul'at el Mezzeh. It stands on the south-eastern extremity of the town, on a heap of rubbish in which layers of the purple shell are still visible.

text: Camels

text: Forts & fortifications

text: Lebanese

text: Lebanon

text: Sidon

text: Fountains

text: Lebanon

text: Sidon

text: Wells

text: Lebanon

text: Sidon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: M-20

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim M20

title: M-20


title: A peasant woman churning. The churn is made of the tanned skin of a goat stripped off whole; it is partly filled with milk and the extremities being securely closed, it is suspended in any convenient place, by four ropes fastened to the skin of the legs.

text: Tobacco pipes

text: Buildings

text: Lebanon

text: Butter making

text: Lebanon

text: Women

text: Lebanon

text: Peasants

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N01

title: N-1


title: N-2

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N02

title: N-2


title: Site of Sarepta. As early as the thirteenth century, this city was in ruins, and now only fragments of its foundations exist, chiefly on a headland called 'Ain el Kantarah and also along the shore south of it extending a mile or more. Early Greek and Roman writers speak highly in praise of the [site] of Sarepta

text: Trees

text: Archaeological sites

text: Zarephath (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N03

title: N-3


title:
The
    Bay of Sideon from Sarepta. The distance from Sarepta to Sidon, in a straight line across the bay, is about ten miles.  On the extreme right, partially covered by a tree, the ruins on Tell el Burâk can be distinguished, and the Khan el Burâk . . .

text: Zarephath (Extinct city)

text: Sidon (Lebanon)

text: Sailboats

text: Lebanese

text: Lebanon

text: Zarephath (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N04

title: N-4


title: Ridge over the Nahr el Kâsimîyeh (the Leontes). On the ancient Roman coast road, which is now traversed by telegraph wires.  Higher up, this river is called El Litâny.

text: Flowers

text: Telegraph lines

text: Lebanon

text: Stone bridges

text: Lebanon

text: Rivers

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-5

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N05

title: N-5


title: N-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N06

title: N-6


title: The valley of the Leontes, near the coast. The river, the Nahr el Kâsîmiyeh, is of considerable depth at this point, and flows hence to the sea in a very serpentine course.

text: Fishing

text: Lebanon

text: Waterwheels

text: Lebanon

text: Rivers

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-7

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N07

title: N-7


title: Tyre

namePart: Bradshaw, Samuel, engraver

text: Buildings

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Beaches

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Minarets

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Mosques

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Tyre (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Tyre

text: Steel engravings


title: N-9

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N09

title: N-9


title:
The
    gate of Tyre (Sûr). There are two springs of fresh water on the peninsula, one of which is close to this gate. It has been conjectured that they are connected with the foundations of Râs el 'Ain.

text: Camels

text: Wells

text: Buildings

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Beaches

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: City walls

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Gates

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Tyre (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-11

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N11

title: N-11


title: N-13

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N13

title: N-13


title: Ruins of the cathedral church at Tyre. Eusebius describes this building as the most splendid of all the temples of Phoenicia. Among the ruins there is a double column of red  syenite granite, now prostrate, consisting of two parallel connected shafts of great size.

text: churches

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Tyre (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-14

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N14

title: N-14


title: Kabr Hirâm. And the neighboring village of Hanâwieh, with a view of the peninsula of Tyre as it appears from this spot.

text: Beaches

text: Lebanon

text: Hiram, King of Tyre, fl. 969-936 B.C.

text: Tombs & sepulchral monuments

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-15

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N15

title: N-15


title:
The
    remains of Tyre. The shore is strewn from one end to the other, along the edge of the water, and in the water, with columns of red and grey granite of various dimensions, the only remaining monuments of ancient Tyre.

text: Beaches

text: Lebanon

text: Coins, Roman

text: Flowers

text: Lebanon

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: wood engravings


title: N-19

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N19

title: N-19


title: Reservoirs of Râs el 'Ain and part of the Roman aqueduct. Close to this spot stood Palaeotyrus of which no vestige now remains, the materials have been carried away by Alexander (332 B.C.) to construct the more or causeway which unites insular Tyre to the mainland.

text: Aqueducts

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Women

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Reservoirs

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-20

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N20

title: N-20


title: Aqueduct, Râs el 'Ain. Of Saracenic origin, its slightly pointed arches are in many places almost concealed by luxuriant vegetation.

text: vines

text: Lebanon

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-21

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N21

title: N-21


title: Râs el Abyad (White Cape), the ladder of Tyre. From the south side. The rock-cut undulating road. with its shallow steps, is in many places nearly two hundred feet above the sea.

text: Coastlines

text: Cliffs

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Tyre (Lebanon)

text: Trails & paths

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: N-22

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim N22

title: N-22


title: Râs el Abyad. Showing the north or Tyrian side. The little tower in the distance is a Turkish guard-house, where tolls are levied, as it commands the pass to Acre.

text: Cliffs

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Guardhouses

text: Lebanon

text: Trails & paths

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-1

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O01

title: O-1


title: O-2

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O02

title: O-2


title: Looking towards Tyre from Nâkûrah.  An old olive-tree in the foreground and a Muslim cemetary on the hillside.

text: Bodies of water

text: Lebanon

text: Cemeteries

text: Lebanon

text: Olive trees

text: Lebanon

text: Pipes (Smoking)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-3

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O03

title: O-3


title: Râs en Nâkûrah. The road over this headland, which has also been called the "Ladder of Tyre" has lately been greatly improved.  South of it there is a spring called 'Ain Musheirifeh.

namePart: Meeder, Philip (d. 1913)

text: Rock formations

text: Coastlines

text: Bodies of water

text: Lebanon

text: Tyre (Lebanon)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O04

title: O-4


title:
The
    city of Acre (Akka) from the north.  Mount Carmel is seen in the distance, beyond the bay. Muslim cemetary and aqueduct in the foreground.

text: Aqueducts

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Acre (Israel)

text: Cemeteries

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Carmel, Mount (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-5

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O05

title: O-5


title: The city of Acre from the south.  The mount of the Nahr Na'mân, the ancient river Belus, in the foreground, where, tradition says, glass was first produced by an accidental combination of the necessary materials.

text: Rivers

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-7

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O07

title: O-7


title: Gate of 'Akka (St. Jean d'Acre). It is the only entrance to the city and is situated near the south end of the eastern land wall, close to the head of the shallow harbor.

text: Acre (Israel)

text: Boats

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: City walls

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Harbors

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Gates

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Minarets

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Mosques

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-8

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O08

title: O-8


title: O-9

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O09

title: O-9


title: Ruins of an aqueduct east of Akka. The position of the stork is quite characteristic, as storks instinctively take possession of lofty deserted structures, where they may build their huge nests in safety.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Aqueducts

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Acre (Israel)

text: Hummingbirds

text: Israel

text: Snails

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-10

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O10

title: O-10


title: General view of 'Akka from the North- East, Carmel in the distance.  More than half the space within the walls is occupied by government buildings and barracks.  On the right is the great mosque of Jezzar Pasha, with its curiously butressed dome. It stands in a square court surrounded by domed chambers for the use of the mosque attendents and pilgrims. A steamer is approaching the town of Haifa, at the foot of Mount Carmel.

text: Acre (Israel)

text: Barracks

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: City walls

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Carmel, Mount (Israel)

text: Mosques

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Soldiers

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Ships

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-11

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O11

title: O-11


title: Ablutions after a mid-day meal. Of all the people of the East it may be said, "except they wash their hands diligently, eat not," and after a meal it is urgently necessary when fingers have been used instead of forks.

text: Acre (Israel)

text: Interiors

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Manners & customs

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Water pipes (Smoking)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-12

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O12

title: O-12


title:
The
    plain of 'Akka from the slopes of Carmel. Showing the grove of palm-trees which extends from Haifa nearly as far as the river Kishon.

text: Acre (Israel)

text: Beaches

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Goatherds

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Goats

text: Israel

text: Palms

text: Israel

text: Acre

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-14

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O14

title: O-14


title: A well in a garden of Haifa, Showing a machine, called a sâkiyeh, raising water to fill the adjacent tank, on the right.

text: Working animals

text: Donkeys

text: Israel

text: Haifa

text: Wells

text: Israel

text: Haifa

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.


title: O-15

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O15

title: O-15


title:
The
    Bay of 'Akka from the slopes of Carmel. With the ruined castle of Haifa in the foreground and a glimpse of the town of Haifa at the foot of the castle-hill ; in the distance the city of 'Akka is clearly shown.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: Haifa

text: Acre (Israel)

text: Bodies of water

text: Castles & palaces

text: Israel

text: Haifa

text: Ships

text: Israel

text: Haifa

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-17

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O17

title: O-17


title: O-18

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O18

title: O-18


title:
The
    convent of Mount Carmel.  Its terraced roof commands extensive views alonf the coast, north and south.  The building on the left is used for the accomodation of native pilgrims, and is surmounted by a light house four hundred and seventy feet above the sea.

text: Carmel, Mount (Israel)

text: Lighthouses

text: Israel

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Monasteries

text: Israel

text: Monks

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-19

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O19

title: O-19


title: The grotto known as the "school of the prophets,"  to which pilgrimmages are made by Mohammadans, in honor of Elijah. The house on the left is modern but occupies the site of an ancient chapel.  It is opposite the entrance of the cave.

text: Shrines

text: Pilgrims

text: Chandeliers

text: Prophets

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-22

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O22

title: O-22


title:
The
    northern point of Mount Carmel. With the lighthouse on its summit.  The sandy point is Râs Kerûm (the head of the vineyard).  The city of 'Akka appears in the distance, and beyond it are the white cliffs of  Râs en Nakûrah.

namePart: Swain, Joseph Blomeley (b. 1844)

text: Carmel, Mount (Israel)

text: Lighthouses

text: Israel

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-23

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O23

title: O-23


title:
El
    Mahrakah, the place of Elijah's sacrifice.  At the south-eastern point of the range of Carmel.  In the foreground is the green knoll called Tell el Kassîs (the Hill of the Priests), close to which the Kishon flows.

text: Carmel, Mount (Israel)

text: Elijah (Biblical prophet)

text: Rivers

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-24

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O24

title: O-24


title: O-28

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O28

title: O-28


title: Well at the place of Elijah's sacrifice, and a view from the heights above it.  Embracing a long line of the coast of the plain of 'Athlit, with a strip of blue sea beyond.

text: Water carriers

text: Buildings

text: Israel

text: Elijah (Biblical prophet)

text: Wells

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-29

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O29

title: O-29


title:
The
    river Kishon from El Mahrakah. The place of Elijah's sacrifice. A Bedawîn encampment in the foreground, and the hills of Galilee in the distance beyond a forest of oak-trees.

text: Bedouins

text: Camping

text: Israel

text: Flowers

text: Israel

text: Galilee (Israel)

text: Oaks

text: Israel

text: Rivers

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: O-30

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O30

title: O-30


title: Haifa, at the foot of Mount Carmel.

namePart: Brandard, Edward Paxman (1819-1898)

text: Coastlines

text: Camels

text: Israel

text: Carmel, Mount (Israel)

text: Haifa (Israel)

text: Palms

text: Israel

text: Haifa

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

title: Haifa, at the foot of Mount Carmel.

text: Steel engravings


title: O-31

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O31

title: O-31


title: O-32

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim O32

title: O-32


title:
The
    plains of Esdraelon from the heights above El Mahrakah, looking towards the south-east.  In the distance, in a central position, the village of Zerîn (Jezreel), with its white castle, is easily distinguished.  On the left rises Jebel Duby (Little Hermon), and on the right are the mountains of Gilboa.

text: Castles & palaces

text: Israel

text: Esdraelon, Plain of (Israel)

text: Gilboa, Mount (Israel)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.


title: P-1 (case oversized)

text: Cuneiform

text: [the same in the Box 29?]

text: Oppenheim P01

title: P-1 (case oversized)


title: The river Kishon. As it appears after the rainy season, where it flows through the narrow pass called Wâdy el Kasab (Valley of Reeds), which leads from the great plain of Esdraelon to the plain of' 'Akka. Oleanders flourish here, and many small birds build their nests.

text: Bedouins

text: Camels

text: Israel

text: Rivers

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: P-2 (case damaged)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim P02

title: P-2 (case damaged)


title: Athlît, from the south.  Called Castellum Peregrinorum by medieval writers. It was one of the most important landing-places for pigrims during the thirteenth century. It stands on a rocky promontory  which projects a quarter of a mile westward into the sea

text: Boats

text: Coastlines

text: Castles & palaces

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: P-3 (case missing)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim P03

text: [to look for in the box 44]

title: P-3 (case missing)


title: Ruins on the west side of Athlît.  The fortress was built by the Templars in the year 1218 and was the last place held by the crusaders in Palestine.  It was taken by the Sultan Melek el Ashrâf el Khalîl after his conquest of Acre in 1291.

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: P-4

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim P04

title: P-4


title: P-5 ([tablet missing?], case damaged)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim P05

title: P-5 ([tablet missing?], case damaged)


title: View of the great sea from Athlît. Through a large pointed arch, which is only held in position by the extreme hardness and tenacity of the cement used in construction of this fortress.

namePart: Dana, William Jay (1839-1913)

text: Forts & fortifications

text: Israel

text: `Atlit

text: Mediterranean Sea

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: `Atlit

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: P-6

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim P06

title: P-6


title: Remains of a crusading fort at Tantûrah. Its shattered tower is thirty feet in height.  In the distance the village of Tantûrah appears, in the site of the ancient city of Dor.

text: Coastlines

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: Dor (Extinct city)

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: P-7 (tablet missing, case present)

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim P07

title: P-7 (tablet missing, case present)


title:
The
    castle of Caesarea. A medieval structure, with marble columns built transversely into the walls. In the interior there are several vaulted chambers.  It stands on the ancient mole on the south side of the harbour.

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: Caesarea

text: Caesarea (Israel)

text: Beaches

text: Israel

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: P-17

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim P17

title: P-17


title: Columns in the sea, Caesarea, formed of granite and various kinds of marble; they are relics of Herod's city which were used by medieval builders to strengthen sea walls which have now perished.

text: Coastlines

text: Archaeological sites

text: Israel

text: Caesarea

text: Caesarea (Israel)

text: Coins, Roman

text: Colonel Wilson, ed.

text: Wood engravings


title: P-18

text: Cuneiform

text: Oppenheim P18

title: P-18