JERUSALEM Solomon Temple Al-Aksa Mosque Ceiling Domes

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Each Print Specifics: Type of print: Steel engraving (Intaglio) - Original French antique printYear of printing: 1873 Publisher: Paris, A. Levy, Editeur, 13 Rue de Lafayette. Condition: 1-2 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). The print is slightly uneven. Dimensions: 10 x 13 inches (25 x 33 cm) including blank margins (borders) around the images.Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. 3. The photos show the front and back side (at a reduced scale) of the print. Legend/Narrative: Ceiling Domes details, Double Gate under the Al-Aqsa Mosque, (Temple of Solomon) Jerusalem. From a sketch by de Saulcy. (The acanthus leaf of capital of the central column was engraved after a photograph). A machine translation fo the original french text - not edited: The left gallery constitutes in relation to the first a sort of platform which remains approximately horizontal. The two galleries are separated by a series of pillars squares ending with a monolithic column followed by two half-columns forming part of a quadrangular pillar. From the round column, a series of ten of steps of unequal width, leads to a room quite vast, covered with four charming lowered and coupled domes, which we will publish shortly, and which are supported in the center of the room by a column monolith of the most pronounced Egyptian character, and of which the capital is formed of a large bouquet of acanthus leaves which at first glance one is tempted to take for palms . Beyond the two extreme coupled domes there is a double vestibule cut in two by an enormous pier, provided at its front part with a half-column engaged with the same diameter as the central column. These domes, which are lowered, are four in number, and their impact crowns the large monolithic column, with a capital of Egyptian appearance, which we have already described: they are built in leki blocks (royal stone), and which n It is a compact limestone, with considerable amounts of the beautiful hard stone of the country, called magrain, almost as fine as that of lithographic stone. These blocks obviously suffered from the violent action of the fire, and it is hardly possible to attribute this accident to the Royal Portico which perished with the temple in 70 of the Christian era, during the destruction of Jerusalem and its sanctuary by the legions of Titus. We will notice the kinds of square boxes which, in one of the domes, follow one another eight in number, and which each have a varied motif. One might be tempted to consider this ornamentation as very strange for such a remote period, if it had not been found by Mr. Salzmann on an archaic dish, discovered by him in his excavations at Camiros, and which undoubtedly belongs , at a time before the 8th century before the Christian era. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

Price: 39.95 USD

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