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... square tower , twenty - five cubits on a side I assumed this from Dr Robinson ( Bib . Res . Tome 1. pp . 453-457 ) in my first edition . D'Anville held it to occupy the site of the Tower Psephi- nus . Châteaubriand's Itinéra 11. pp . 45 ...
... square tower , twenty - five cubits on a side I assumed this from Dr Robinson ( Bib . Res . Tome 1. pp . 453-457 ) in my first edition . D'Anville held it to occupy the site of the Tower Psephi- nus . Châteaubriand's Itinéra 11. pp . 45 ...
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... square of forty cubits , solid to the same height ; the latter also a square of twenty cubits , and solid to that height . Their total altitude was eighty , ninety , and fifty - five cubits respectively ; but this alti- tude was much ...
... square of forty cubits , solid to the same height ; the latter also a square of twenty cubits , and solid to that height . Their total altitude was eighty , ninety , and fifty - five cubits respectively ; but this alti- tude was much ...
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... square of twenty- five cubits , assigned by Josephus to this tower , does so nearly correspond with the dimensions of the modern tower , as measured by our officers , that the sites must , I think , be identical ; and this supposition ...
... square of twenty- five cubits , assigned by Josephus to this tower , does so nearly correspond with the dimensions of the modern tower , as measured by our officers , that the sites must , I think , be identical ; and this supposition ...
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... square below , contracted above , surmounted by a Cross ; with the door at the East ; the couch for the body cut in the rock of the Sepulchre , on the North side and on the right of the entrance . And here it will be well to introduce ...
... square below , contracted above , surmounted by a Cross ; with the door at the East ; the couch for the body cut in the rock of the Sepulchre , on the North side and on the right of the entrance . And here it will be well to introduce ...
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... square of 600 feet at the South - West a of the present Haram . About 150 yards from the N East angle of the Temple was the place of crucifix over which was built the Church of Golgotha . present Golden Gateway is the propylæum to the ...
... square of 600 feet at the South - West a of the present Haram . About 150 yards from the N East angle of the Temple was the place of crucifix over which was built the Church of Golgotha . present Golden Gateway is the propylæum to the ...
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