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The Explorations at Jerusalem: Robinson's Arch, Haram Wall, 1869. Creator: Unknown.

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The Explorations at Jerusalem: Robinson's Arch, Haram Wall, 1869. 'The ground here shown is the present level of the surface in the filled-up Tyropoeon Valley. The view looks northward, the Haram Wall being to the right hand of the spectator. This piece is a very fair sample of the masonry of the wall. Its stones are of various sizes, and one of them, partly visible in the Illustration, but partly hidden, is 38 ft. long...There is a corner-stone, at the south-east angle of the Haram, weighing a hundred tons. The concave front presented by two of the stones here, beneath which the bush is seen growing, had been observed by Dr. Robinson, the author of "Biblical Researches;" and it had been suggested by him that they once formed part of an arch. But it has been reserved for Lieutenant Warren to discover the other stones or voussoirs [vousoirs, or wedge-shaped stones] of the arch, buried at a depth of 40 ft., and one 63 ft., beneath the present surface of the Tyropoeon valley; proving that they had fallen down into it when the arch was destroyed; from which circumstance it may be inferred that the arch formed part of a grand bridge or viaduct, built across the valley joining Mount Moriah to Mount Zion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A35_122

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33,5Mo (2,4Mo) / 33,1cm x 25,4cm / 3906 x 2995 (300dpi)

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