Early
maps showing the proposed location of the Temple in
the Southwest corner of the Temple Mount, Jerusalem
Map
1. This is a map of the underground structures and cisterns of the
Temple Mount. I have marked out the 600 feet (one furlong) measurement
given by Josephus. The Trumpeting Stone was found during an
excavation by Benjermine Mazar confirming that the SW corner was part
of the Temple complex described by Jpsephus. .
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Notice all the following maps have the 600 feet ending on the east at
Triple Gate.
Map 2. By Thomas
Lewin ESQ
who authored "Siege of Jerusalem by Titus", 1863. This map was created
from the works of Josephus concerning the war of 70 AD.
Not only was he able to show where the Temple would have been
from Josephus' writings but in the next diagram we can see that he was
also able to locate the Council House, the Xystus, and the lower Acra,
also called Grecian Akra, which have all been found once the
excavations of these areas were made in recent years. The Akra being
the last to be uncovered. Akra is the word for Millo in Greek
and
it means fort or stronghold. There were many of these in Jerusalem but
the one we are all interested in at this time is the one built by
Antiochus IV of the Grecian/Seleucid dynasty that was located in the
lower city.
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Map 3. which is called 'Map of Jerusalem grounded on
Tobler's Map". Extrait
de : Jerusalem: A Sketch of the City and Temple from the Earliest Times
to the Siege by Titus. I believe it is also by Lewin. Titus Tobler was
an early explorer of Jerusalem in the 1840's.
Map 4. is by Captain
Charles Wilson
under the "Ordinance Survey of Jerusalem" 1886. He is one of
the
last people allowed to explore the Temple Mount that was non-Muslim.
Map 5. is by James
Ferguson, also an early explorer of the Temple Mount.
"An Essay on the Ancient Topography of Jerusalem", published
in 1847,
"Locating
Solomon's' Temple" eBook by
Norma Robertson
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