278 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, with the other Jews\ They consisted priii- 
> — -v— ^ cipally of deserters from Jud^a ; and they have 
continued to maintain their pecuHar tenets to 
the present day^ Sichem, according to Pro- 
copius^, was miich favoured by the Emperor 
Justinian, who restored the sanctuaries, and 
added largely to the other public edifices of the 
city. The principal object of veneration, among 
Jacob's the present inhabitants, is Jacob's Well, over 
IVelL 
which a church was formerly erected*. This 
is situate at a small distance from the town*. 
(1) Josephtis say 5 o( them, that they boasted of their JewisJi origin 
whenever the Jews were in prosperity, but disowned any connection 
with, them when in adversity. Vid. y4ntiq. lib. xi. c. 8. 
(2) The antieiit medals of the city bear the name of Flavia Neapolis. 
Spatiheini {De Prast. et Us. Numisni. p. 769. Amst, 1761.) notices a 
medal of the Emperor Titus, in Seguin's Collection, with this inscrip- 
tion, (I)AAOVlNEAnOAII.\MAPEIAI. Vaillunt mentions 
colonial coins of Philip the Elder, on which appeared Mount Gerizim, 
with a temple on its summit. For an account of this temple, named, 
by AntiochuSy the Temple of Jupiter, see Josephus, Antiq. lib. xi. c. 8. 
lib. xii. c. 7. 
(3) See Reland. Palcest. Illust. lib.'iW. p. 1008. torn. II. Utrecht, 1714. 
Procopius, lib. v. De jEdiJiciis Justiniani, cap. 7. 
(4) Attributed, as usual, to the Empress Helena. (See Maundr ell's 
Journey, p. 62.) ArcuJfe, as preserved in Adamnunus, gives a plan of 
it, which proves its form to have been that of a Greek cross : (lib. ii. 
de Loc. Sanct.) This is also in Reland's Work, (p. 1008. torn. II. 
Palcest. lllust. Utrecht, 1714.) It was mentioned by St. Jerom in the 
fourth century. Antoninus the Martyr saw it in the sixth; Arculfe, 
in the seventh ; Willibald, in the eighth ; and Phocas, in the twelfth. 
(b) " About one third of an hour from Naplesa, we came to 
' Jacob's Well.' " Journeu from Alep. to Jems. p. 62. Orf. 1721. 
