JERUSALEM. 34? 
or the field of blood The sepulchres containing them are 
similar to those which were described at the end of the prece¬ 
ding chapter; and inscriptions appeared, as before, upon the 
outside.- None of these inscriptions are how in a state to be- 
■interpreted; but we endeavoured to copy two of them, where 
the characters were sufficiently perfect to allow of our making 
a 'transcript;. • 
In the first, perhaps the wbrds thnsoponeqhkan might 
form the end of the first line, and the beginning of the second. 
The last line seems to terminate with the word CIWN. 
+ WNH NAAS A . . 
PONaeKANW. . . 
A'*Oy roPMAHI Kt 
® £ g) Cj, ® ® N 
in the second, the mixture .of letters usually colled Etrus¬ 
can; and properly Phoenician, with the characters of the Greek 
alphabet, added to the imperfect state of the inscription, seem 
to render illustration hopeless: 
0HKHAI ... . cHTON... * 
> $>■€ S • • . . I 10 N O © T H L 
V ■. $ I ;) . SH e € H AS 
0 © * « > IMF 
C O 9 a ft a ® r I HH S ft ® # « 
In some of these sepulchres were ancient paintings, iqxecu- 
fed after the manner of those found upon the walls of Hercu¬ 
laneum and Pompeii; except that the figures represented 
were those ofthe Apostles, the Virgin, &c. with circular lines, 
as symbols of glory, around their heads. These paintings ap- 
ture. It has ever been famous on account of the sarcophagous virtue possessed by 
the earth about it. hastening the decay of deal bodies. Ship loads of. it were carried 
to the Camp© Santo in Pisa. See Fococke’s Obs. on the East, vol.'ll,, p, .25. Lend. 
1745, 
