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when matched with young wives, to aflift them in the affair 

 of concration. 



Tabeli-.i-; Votlvs, in yinliquity, a name given to certain 

 tablets, which were hung up in tlie temples : for, according 

 to an ancient curtoni, which prevailed all over Greece, fuch 

 as recovered from any dillcmper uied to write in a tablet the 

 nature and fymptoms of their refpetlive maladies, and the 

 remedies which had been n.oll iuccefsful. Tl'^fc tablets 

 Hippocrates is faid to have copied and followed when he 

 firit began to pniftife ; and, if we believe Plli.y (lib. vii. 

 C. 37.), he learned from thcfe the firft rudiments of phyfic. 



A tablet of this nature was difcovercd at Rome, not 

 many years ago, among the ruins of the ancient temple of 

 ^fculapius, with tliis infcription in Greek. .lUlianus being 

 afflified with vomiting of blood, and abandoned by men, tiie 

 pods hallened to i\is relief, and having nourifhcd him for the 

 fpace of three days with honey, reftored him to his health : 

 for which favour lie came to return them thanks in the pre- 

 fence of the people. Tables of a fimilar kind, under the 

 fame denomination, were hung up in the temples by thofc 

 who had efcaped (hipwreck, &c. 



TABELLIO, Tabl'laril.v, in the Rom.an law, ?ifcn- 

 •eener ; a kind of officer often confoimded with the notary, 

 notiirius : yet the two differed in this ; that the notaries only 

 drew up and kept the minutes of atts and inftruments on 

 paper, and in notes, or (hort-hand ; whereas the tabclliones 

 delivered them engroflTed fair, on parchment, in the full 

 executory form. The fame alfo put the feals to contrafts, 

 and rendered them authentic. 



The domeflic clerks of thcfe tabelliones, who at firft 

 wrote under them, in procefs of time came to be called 

 nolariei. 



Pafquier obferves, that the tabelliones at Rome were 

 public flaves, appointed for the keeping of contradts made 

 between private pcrfons. According to Loyfeau, a con- 

 traft WTitten by a notary was not perfeft, or obligatory, 

 till the tabellio had written it fair : after which, the parties 

 fubfcribed it, /. e. they wrote at bottom, that they ap- 

 proved the contents ; for fignatures were not then in ufe. 

 See Signature. 



" Quoniam tabellionum ufus in regno Anglise non habetur, 

 propter quod magis ad figilla authentica credi eft necelTe, 

 ut eorum copia facihus habeatur, ftatuimus, ut figillum ha- 

 beant non folum archiepifcopi, et epifcopi, fed eorum ofB- 

 ciales." 



TABENNE, in Geography, an ifland in the river Nile, 

 between Dendera and the ruins of the ancient Thebes ; 

 famous on account of the retreat of the monk Pacomius and 

 feveral hundred of his brethren. 



TABENUS Campus, in Ancient Geography, a country 

 of Afia Minor, on the confines of Phrygia and Myfia. 

 Strabo. 



TABERG, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the pro- 

 vmce of Smaland, fitr.ated on a mountain of the fame name, 

 which abounds in iron-ore ; 8 miles S. of Jonkioping. 



TABERISTAN. See Mazanderan. 



TABERN, in Rural Economy, a term fometimes apphed 

 to a cellar, or other fimilar excavation, for the containing of 

 liquor of the domeftic kind. 



TABERNA Meritoria, among the Romans, Mars' 

 hofpital, or a place where difabled foldiers were maintained 

 at the charge of the government. 



TABERNACLE, Tabernaculum, g. d. a tent; among 

 the Jews, was a kind of moveable chapel, fo contrived as to 

 be taken to pieces, and .put together at pleafure, for the 

 convenience of carrying it from place to place, during the 

 BiigratJOD of the Ifraelites ia the wildemefs for forty years. 



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It wa« crcfted by Mofes, in confequence of the expreftf 

 command of God, partly to be a palace of his prefencc aa 

 the king of Ifrael, and partly to be the medium of the moll 

 folemn public worlhip, which the people were to pay to 

 him. It was crcfted on the firll day of the firil month of 

 the fecond year after the Ifraehtes' exodus from Egypt. 

 Exod. xl. 2. 17. 26. 29. 34, 35. 



The tabernacle was of a reftangular figure, thirty cubits 

 long, ten broad, and ten high ; or, according to Dr. Cum- 

 berland's reduftion to Englifli meafure, fifty-five feet long, 

 eighteen broad, and eighteen high. The two fides and one 

 end were compofed of broad boards, ftanding upright ; each 

 board being about two feet nine inches broad, faftened at 

 the bottom by two tenons in each board, fitted into two 

 mortifes on the foundation ; at the top by links or hafps, 

 and on the fides by five wooden bars, which run through 

 rings or Ilaples in each of the boards. Each fide confifted 

 of twenty of thefe boards, and the end of eight. Both the 

 boards and bars were overlaid with gold ; and the rings and 

 hafps were of the fame metal. The foundation, on which 

 they ftood, confifted of folid blocks of filver, two under each 

 board ; each of which was about fixteen inches long, and 

 weigliing a talent, or about an hundred weight. The num- 

 ber of thefe blocks was about an hundred ; ninety-fix of 

 which were laid under the forty-eight boards, and the other 

 four were the bales of the columns that fupported the veil 

 or curtain, which divided the infide of the tabernacle into 

 two rooms. Hence fome have derived the ancient falhioii 

 of fetting porphyry columns on bafes of white marble. 



The tabernacle had four different coverings, or carpets, 

 thrown over one another. The firft and loweft was made of 

 fine linen, richly embroidered with figures of cherubims, in 

 ftiades of blue, purple, and fcarlet : and confifted of ten 

 breadths, which were joined together with blue loops and 

 clafps of gold. The next over this was made of a fort of 

 mohair, the breadths of which were joined with clafps of 

 brafs. The third carpet was made of ram's (l<in dyed red ; 

 and the uppermoft of all was made of tacha/Ii, i. e. as has 

 been generally fuppofed, badger's (kins. 



The eaft end of the tabernacle had no boards, but was 

 flieltered with a fine embroidered curtain, hung upon five 

 pillars of Shittim wood, overlaid with gold, and fuppofed 

 by Philo to touch the ground. 



The infide of the tabernacle was divided into two rooms, 

 by means of a veil or curtain, hung upon four pillars ; the 

 veil was curioufly manufafturcd of the richeft ftuff, and 

 adorned with cherubims and other ornaments, embroidered 

 upon it. By tliis veil the tabernacle was divided, and learned 

 writers have reafonably conjeftured, in the fame proportion 

 with the temple, afterwards built according to its model : 

 that is, two-thirds of the whole length were allotted to the 

 firft room, and one-third to the fecond ; fo that the room 

 beyond the veil, which was called the holy of holies, was ex- 

 actly fquare, being ten cubits each way : and the firft room, 

 called ihe fanfiuary, was twice as long as broad. 



Round the tabernacle there was a fpacious court, one 

 hundred cubits long, and fifty broad, furrounded with pillar? 

 fet in bafes of brafs, and filleted with filver, at the diftance 

 of five cubits from one another. The chief things in this 

 court were the altar of burnt-offering, and the brazen laver. 

 See Exod. ch. xxviii. and ch. xxx. 



In the fanftuary, or firft room of the tabernacle, were the 

 altar of incenfe (Exod. xxx. i — 10.), the golden candle- 

 ftick (Exod. XXV. 31, &c.) valued by Cumberland at up- 

 wards of five thoufand and feventy-fix pounds fterling, and 

 the table of fhew-bread, defcribed Exod. xxv. 23 — 30. 

 Within the fecond veil, in the holy of holies, was the ark of 

 8 teftimcny, 



