Sacred Geography And Antiquities
Sacred Geography And Antiquities
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" This is the place known to the Greeks and Romans as Palmyra, both names signifying city of palms. Its magnificent ruins are in the Syrian desert about one hundred and twenty miles northeast of Damascus, in a fruitful and well watered oasis. Its situation about midway between the Euphra tes and the Orontes gave it great importance as a commercial depot and resting-place for the carrying trade between the coast and the interior of Asia.
The ruins of Palmyra produce a very striking effect when s...een at a dis tance across the sandy plain. Thousands of Corinthian columns of white marble, some erect and others fallen, cover an extent of about a mile and a half, and present the appearance of a forest. "It is, " says Porter (Hand book, p. 512), "a strange scene. Syria has nothing to compare with it. Ruins so extensive, so desolate, so bare, exist nowhere else. Long lines of columns, irregular clumps, and single pillars, rising up out of huge piles of white stones ; fragments of gateways, and arches, and walls, and porti cos ; aud the vast pile of the Temple of the Sun away beyond them all.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" This is the place known to the Greeks and Romans as Palmyra, both names signifying city of palms. Its magnificent ruins are in the Syrian desert about one hundred and twenty miles northeast of Damascus, in a fruitful and well watered oasis. Its situation about midway between the Euphra tes and the Orontes gave it great importance as a commercial depot and resting-place for the carrying trade between the coast and the interior of Asia.
The ruins of Palmyra produce a very striking effect when s...een at a dis tance across the sandy plain. Thousands of Corinthian columns of white marble, some erect and others fallen, cover an extent of about a mile and a half, and present the appearance of a forest. "It is, " says Porter (Hand book, p. 512), "a strange scene. Syria has nothing to compare with it. Ruins so extensive, so desolate, so bare, exist nowhere else. Long lines of columns, irregular clumps, and single pillars, rising up out of huge piles of white stones ; fragments of gateways, and arches, and walls, and porti cos ; aud the vast pile of the Temple of the Sun away beyond them all.
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