Ecclesiastical dresses and antiques. Medieval, Byzantine.
Various depictions and descriptions of bloody and bloodless sacrificial ceremonies of the ancient Romans. The cultrarius, the camillus, the spondaules, the victim butchers, victimarii, the popa.
The Nile is the only river of Egypt, and is called by way of pre-eminence the River.
The island of Cyprus was known to the Hebrews under the name of Chetim (or Kittim), from Kittim the son of Javan, the son of Japhet, the son of Noah.
The interior of the Chapel of St. Catherine is probably the oldest and the richest of all the Eastern churches
The “Rock of Moses” is, from its size, a remarkable object: it rests isolated where it has fallen from the eastern Mountain above
This Convent has been built in the form of a square fortress of hewn granite, and flanked with towers, of which one or two have cannon.
Order of Saint Basil the Great. Basilian monks. Armenian Monks. Coptic Monks.
Plan and sections of the Tomb of the Prophets; View, plan and section of the Tomb of Lazarus at Bethany.
The ruins of the Church of Saint John the Baptist in the ancient city of Samaria, not far from the modern city of Nablus.
Jacob’s Well (the Well of the Samaritan Woman) is a well in Samaria at the foot of Mount Garizim near biblical Shechem (now Nablus).
