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the phrase which, as, Philo tells us, was used by the Esszaes the holy places "ie"the synagogues." It is known that the Besties lived in precisely those paround the mouth of the Jordan Che Dead *However, that does not necessarily imply that the date of our mosaic The Tivas received from M. Ch. 5.uld be fixed at a time when there 'Clermont-Ganneau, the

ware still Essenes-that is to say, at

The President of the Pri French Orientalist and Mem.re de the beginning of the Christian era.

Sir Henry Duke, con I'Institut, an account of the discovery But this phrase may be associated 526 thermomete in Palestine of a new Hebrew mosaic, with a tradition of Essenic origin, steamer Empress of Asia," and ship- on the which was unearthed at Aim Duk, through the medium, perhaps, of one pad by a New York firm to a German near Jericho, by a chance Turkish or other of those strange Jewish or shell during the recent campaign. Judaeo Christian sects such as the

m of wholesale druggists at Shang- The mosaic itself and au inscrip Nazarenes, the Gibeonites, etc., hai. The seizure was made on the tion upon it were photographed by For, owing to a number of considera, British steamer Empress of Asia "at a British officer, and the photograph tions for which there is no room her Shanghai in July, 1917. was sent for interpretation to the they will be explained in the detailed French Academie des Inscriptions et monagraph, of which this is only a Belles Lettres, who in turn handed very brief summary-am inclined it to their distinguished member, M. Clermont-Ganteau.

The task of examining it, says the writer, was given to me, and at the first glance I recognised it as a text

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At that time, said counsel, for the Crown, the United States was in the to place the date of this-Inscription war. The thermometers were seized as late as historical conditions will by the Post Oflice. The Court at permit. The very fact that we are Alexandra hat considered the posi dealing with a mosaic pavement is !

not the least of these considerations, tion of a German subject at Shanghai in Hebrew characters of the square for the ancient synagogues of Galilee, i in the case of the Lutzow. As to the cursive type, and the Judaeo-Aramaia, which go back to the second century extra-territorial rights of Germans or Aramaec-Jewish language, show. AD.. had not as yet mosaic pave there it was held that they could not ing a very great dealin common withments. All their pavemente were the inscriptione, also in miosaic, of made up of big stone flags.

acquire a commercial domicile in

ago,

the Galilean synagogues at Kefr The place where the mosaic, was Shanghai, and thereby divest them- Kenna (the Cana of the Bible) and found, and where, of course, the selves, of their obligations as enemy Sefuriye (Sephoris), which I revealed synagogue stood, is the site of an subjects."" some considerable time ago. The ancient town, of which characteristic inscription has suffered pretty badly traces are still to be seen. I myselfprima facie was a port of a neutral His Lordship said that Shanghai in parts, and certain optical distor examined them nearly half a century subject to a convention between the tions due to the conditions in which the photograph had to be taken, add

Aslatic and European Powers. Tak What town was this, built in the ing notice of this convention and the to the difficulties of deciphering char plain of Jericho, near the copious extra territorial character of such acters already/distorted by perspec: stream which gushes from the foot parties residing. In Shanghai-who tive

of the Quarantana Mountain, and had recourse to their own legation It should be added that on the called by the Arabs Ain Duk-the he had to find that these merchants right and left outside the text, there spring of Dek?" This name Duk were not in point of law denizens of are traces of designa much mutilated, which at times seem to resolve the stronghold where in the second German rights, and a consequence is undoubtedly a survival of Dok, a neutral country. They kept their themselves into the outline of some century BC, that terrible tragedy of that in, this case was that the 526 uncouth animal not unlike a lion, was played out which ended in the thermometers must be condemned as and opposite this a fragment of a death of the famous Asmonean prince good and lawful prize. human arm. Before this can be Simon Miccabeus, who was ambush definitely settled a new inquiry oned and murdered by his own son-in- the spot will be necessary.

law,Ptolemy, the Governor of The result of my deciphering. Jericho. based on this first photographic -evidence, b'as follows —

still a Jewish centre in existence? ;POSSIBLITIES OF EXPLORATION." there after the definite destruction. Honpured be the memory of Binya. Ain Duk has preserved the name of political Judaism, by Hadrian. min (Benjamin), the Phardas (a sort but not, the exact position, of Dok Now this centre was still flourishing of adcainistrator of the community), of the Maccabees, which was no at a much later date, as is proved by the son of Yosch (Joseph), Honoured doubt situated not far away, but the sacred writings to which I referr (alas), be the memory of all those a little farther up the mountain: Ied above. They bring us down to who render assistance, and of every have treviously brought forward the the fourth an ifth centuries, right one who has given or shall give theory that this place is the site of into the Byzantine period. At to this Holy Place, whather gold, or the Nears of Flavius Josephus, from Noeros; they tell us near the Dopka silver, or any (other) valuables Be which the Tetrarch Archeleus, the mountain, some fan stical Jews had not backward in giving to this Holy soil of Herod, had drawn the water settled, and used to make violent "Place! Amen.,

to irrigate the Jericho palm groves attacks on the monks on the moun This Nora is the same as the tain. This Noeros belong, without Na'arin of the Talmud and the any doubt, to the series of homo-" Thus it is, in substance, an appeal Noorath of Eusebius and St. Jerome, phonous places, names of which I have for funds, probably for the expenses who in their Onomasticon try to just given; a list, and moreover, it of the services, works of charity, identify it with the Biblical Noorath, fulfils the topographical conditions, payment of personnel, outlay in in the land of Ephraima, resign, It is evident, of course, that what material, work to be done on the On this subject they give us two is left of the mosaic will have to be #ya«gogue, repairs, extensions, even valuable pieces of information: first, completely uncovered. But it is also decoration, such as the laying of the that the Noorath of their day was essential to expore right beneath the mosaic" ___¡welf—who knows? For five Roman miles from Jericho (just, pavement itself. For perhaps, in the evidently it relates to staynagogue, about the same distance, as that of pavements of the old synagogue: of. The name by which it is called in Ala Duk fom Jericho); and, second peru sam) secret undergrondd very curiousí, atrab gadicitah." The ly, that the town was till inhabited store; may be found", confahing,

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