330 THE HOLY LAND. 
^vn^' sepulchre somewhat farther towards the west 
than the last described. 
nxnv^rtib 
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□ ^T I nnx 
nxt t^ • 
I — "/ 
From the imperfect state of this inscriplion, and 
the decomposition of the rock itself upon which 
it is placed, the copy may be liable to error. 
It was made, however, with great care, and due 
attention was paid to the position of the lines. 
The words of the inscription are supposed to 
be Arabic, expressed in Hehreiu and Phoeni- 
cian characters '. The arrow-headed character 
rather bewilder than illustrate. In doubtful inscriptions, the pencil of 
an artist will frequently effect a more genuine copy than the pen of 
the profoundest scholar who ventures to supply the vacant spaces, and 
even to alter the letters according to his manner of reading those 
inscriptions. 
(l) This method of writing is said, by a learned Oriental scholar, 
(Mr. Hatnmer, now Secretary to the German Minister at Constanti- 
nople,) to have been adopted by Aralian Jews, in their inscriptioiis upon 
the hills near Jerusalem. 
