General View of the Pools of Solomon--Part of the Water Supply of the Mosque of Omar
- Description
- 1 photograph
- b&w
- Creator
- Bain, Robert E. M. (Robert Edward Mather), 1858-1932
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 25.5 x 17.7 cm ( 10 x 7 in).
- Notes
- A view of the three pools and the castle.
- The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(I. Kings, vi:14.)--'So Solomon built the house, and finished it.' We give a general view of the Pools of Solomon here because a part of the water which supplied the temple was brought to Jerusalem from this place. There are three of these pools. They are about nine miles from Jerusalem. The length of the upper cistern is about 380 feet, the breadth about 230 feet, the depth 25 feet. The middle cistern is 423 feet long, something over 200 feet broad, 39 feet deep. The lower cistern is 580 feet long, and over 200 feet broad, and 50 feet deep.The road from Hebron to Jerusalem passes just westward of them. Even to a recent day these cisterns sent water to the great mosque in Jerusalem, which is built on the site of Solomon's Temple." See 5212BAI/LVi130CAJS (Voyager # 359235).
- The photograph was not catalogued by Lazard--it was catalogued at LKCAJS.
- Condition: Good
- Provenance
- Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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