Identifier: surveyofwesternp00warruoft (find matches)
Title: The survey of Western Palestine-Jerusalem
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Warren, Charles, Sir, 1840-1927 Palestine Exploration Fund Conder, C. R. (Claude Reignier), 1848-1910
Subjects: Jerusalem -- Antiquities Jerusalem -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Palestine Exploration Fund
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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831 A.P.), appear to agree in pointing to the erection of the octagonalwall in the ninth century. The arcades arc not mentioned before thetwelfth century, but llu: round arches and the pairs of dwarf pilasters,standing above the larger panels, having also round arches, give to theoctagon wall a general style approaching to that of Sassanian buildings.The building at Amman, which has been considered by architecturalauthorities to be not later than the eleventh century, bears a strikingresemblance to the octagon wall of the Dome of the Rock. The pointedarch is .said to have been first used by the Arabs in the ninth ccntiuv. JERUSALEM. 249 and the general result of these various indications seems to tend to thesupposition that the octagon wall of the Dome of the Rock was erectedin the ninth century. (See Dr. Chaplins Letter, Quarterly Statement, 1873. P- I55-) Some eight rafters in all were laid bare above this wall in 1873.The inscription was in Cufic, and was thus rendered by Professor
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Palmer: In the name of God, grace from God to the servant ofGod, Jafer el IMuktader Billah, Commander of the Faithful, may Godspare him to us. According to the order of Essaiyedeh (may God aidher), and it was performed at the hands of Lebid, a Freedman ofEssaiyideh, and that was in one and . . . The date was illegible, but Professor Palmer points out that theMosques of the Empire were repaired by Aly Ibn Isa, vizier of El zso THE SURVEY OE WESTERN PALESTINE. Muki.ulir, in ilv \v\w of th(j llcginih 301 (913 A.D.), which is evidentlylh<: cl.iK; of this text. The carved wooden cornice was found between the modern ceilingand the roof. The ceiling dates from 1190 a.11., or 1776 a.u. Thecornice was evidently once visible. TiiF. Platform Pavement. A good many masons marks were observed on the flagstones of theplatform round the Dome of the Rock. They were copied by CaptainConder and Mr. Tyrwhitt Drake : ^ D-HV- P ^ S ^41. E A few of these are marks commonly found on Crusading buildings, b

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