The Cave of Machpelah: Mamre - Hebron - Kirjath - Arbah.
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The Cave of Machpelah: Mamre - Hebron - Kirjath - Arbah.
From the album Selections from Seventeen-Hundred Genuine Photographs, Taken Around The Shores Of The Mediterranean between the Years 1846-52, with, or without, Notes, Historical, and Descriptive, by a Wayworn Wanderer.
ca. 1852
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13.7 x 19.1 cm.
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Inscriptions caption sheet-(printed) "The Cave of Machpelah: Mamre - Hebron -
Kirjath - Arbah. - Gen. XXV, 27." "Probably this is the most ancient
foundation of Mankind on the Earth - built 'seven years before Zoan in
Egypt.' - (Numbers xiii, 22.) The Cave, now enclosed within these
massive walls, and impenetrable to all but Moselm eyes, is described
in the Old Testament, as it really seems still to be, 'at the end of
the field over against Mamre, the same is Hebron.'"
"The lower structure, with its heavy buttresses of enormous ..."
Kirjath - Arbah. - Gen. XXV, 27." "Probably this is the most ancient
foundation of Mankind on the Earth - built 'seven years before Zoan in
Egypt.' - (Numbers xiii, 22.) The Cave, now enclosed within these
massive walls, and impenetrable to all but Moselm eyes, is described
in the Old Testament, as it really seems still to be, 'at the end of
the field over against Mamre, the same is Hebron.'"
"The lower structure, with its heavy buttresses of enormous ..."
