JERUSALEM. 381 
same book, call them Moiiuments (MvfiyMcc). chap. 
RuFiNus uses the word Sepulchre ; and Jerom^ ' ^ — ' 
calls it a Mausoleum, which still existed in his 
time." Valesius then proceeds to cite Pausanias* ; 
who, speaking of the two most memorable 
sepulchres that were known, mentions those of 
Mausolus in Caria, and that oi Helena in Jud^a. 
But Villalpandus notices a pyramid yet visible at 
these caves'; meaning, probably, a pillar with a 
Pyramidal summit. Josephus describes the Se- 
pulchre oi Helena as being to the north of the 
city^ and although he mentions the ''Royal 
Caves'' immediately after the notice oi Helenas 
Sepulchre, the circumstance of his allusion to the 
Pyramids at the latter % one of which, actually 
seen by Villalpandus^, having since disappeared, 
and thereby warranted the possible annihilation 
(3) Hieronymus in Oratione de Obitu Paula. 
(4) Pausan. \n Arcadicis. Vid. cap.xvi. p. 6'33. ed. Xi/land. Lips- 
1696. 
(5) Vid. Johann. Baptist. Fillalpa)}d. torn. UI. Apparatus, lib. ill. 
cap. Let in sufi Antiquaa Jerusalem Deseriptione. 
(6) Josepkzcs, De Bell. Jud. lib. vi. c. 6. Colon. IG91. 
(7) 'O §8 Mav«/3a^<)f Tccrs iiciivr,; etrrtc, xa.) to. nu aajA^flw Tlfi^ett ti} 
'UoiriXvfia, Sa^ai -r^iiriTu^ii Iv ra.7s ^ru^afti'ffiy, a; h firifm^ uariffxiuaxsi r^lT; 
rot a^iffft,o¥ T^ia aro^ia, rr,; tZv 'U^effeXvfiirav ^oX'.as a«'s;(;;ai/(raf. " 3IonO- 
bazus autem ossa ejus et fratris sui misit Hierosolyma, condenda in 
cxtructis ab ipsa pyramidibus tribus numero, tertio ab urbe Hierosolymi- 
tana stadio dissitis." Joseph. Anliq. lib. xx. c.2. ;). 689. Colon. 1691- 
(8) See Pocock^, " Descript. of the East," vol. II. y. ZO.'LoJid. 1745. 
