TOMB OF ST. JAMES. 
Tins is one of four sepulchres in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, on the east side of the 
Kedron. It is an excavated tomb with an ornamental portal. The fa£ade exhibits two 
Doric columns, fronting the west, and raised about fifteen feet above the ground in the 
same ledge of rock. The cavern is fifteen feet high by ten broad, and extends back about 
fifty feet. The monkish opinion is, that into this cavern the Apostle James retired during 
the interval between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. 
The other tombs are named from Jehoshaphat, Absalom, and Zachariah. There is 
no authority for those names.. The mixture of the Greek style with the massive Egyptian 
shows, that they belong to a late period of art, and especially of art as adopted in the 
Oriental provinces of the Roman empire. They may be even of the age of Hadrian. 1 
Robinson, Biblical Researches, vol. i. p. 517. 
