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Tomb of Absalom

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On the inside, the upper part of the monument is mostly hollow, with a small arched entrance on the south side set above the seam area (where the masonry part starts). Inside this entrance a short staircase leads down to a burial chamber carved out of the solid, lower section. The chamber is 2.4
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In 2003, a mid-4th-century inscription on one of the walls of the monument was discovered. It reads, "This is the tomb of Zachariah, the martyr, the holy priest, the father of John". This suggests that at the time, the monuments was considered to be the burial place of the Temple priest
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The freestanding monument contains a burial chamber with three burial sites. The chamber is carved out of the solid lower section of the monument, but can only be accessed from the upper section via a built entrance and a staircase. It has been compared to
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monolithic block, about 6 m (20 ft) square by 6.4 m (21 ft) high, surrounded on three sides by passageways which separate it from the vertically cut rock of the Mount of Olives. It is decorated from the outside on each side by pairs of
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Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the Monument after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's
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Absalom's Pillar is approximately 20 metres (66 ft) in height. The monument proper stands on a square base and consists of two distinct parts. The lower section is a monolith, hewn out of the rocky slope of the
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The upper, ashlar-built part of the monument consists of three differently-shaped segments: a square base set on top of the Egyptian cornice of the lower part, followed by a round
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The attribution of this particular monument to Absalom was quite persistent, although the Book of Samuel reports that Absalom's body was covered over with stones in a pit in the
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The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer
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for the adjacent burial cave system known as the "Cave" or "Tomb of Jehoshaphat", with which it forms one entity, built at the same time and following a single plan.
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who was a very just man and a very devoted el(der) and (who was) waiting for the consolation of the people". The words describing Simeon are identical to those from
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An analysis of the architectural styles used indicates that the monument's construction and its first stage of use happened during the 1st century CE.
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crowned by a rope-shaped decoration, which sustains a conical roof with concave sides (the easily recognisable "hat"), topped by a half-closed
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Absalom's shrine has traditionally been identified as the monument of Absalom, rebellious son of King David, based on a verse in the
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Archeologically, the so-called "Tomb of Absalom" is not only a burial structure in its own right, with its upper part serving as a
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at the tomb, and removed the shape of a hand that topped the conical roof. However, Napoleon never reached Jerusalem during
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graves on two sides and a small burial niche. The tomb was found empty when first researched by archaeologists.
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king of Judea from 103 to 76 BCE. However, archaeologists have now dated the tomb to the 1st century AD.
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These two inscriptions are part of a secondary use of the monument during the Byzantine period, when
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Tomb of Absalom (western facade), with the entrance to the Cave of Jehoshaphat (left) behind it
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The tomb is not only a burial structure in its own right, with its upper part serving as a
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A second inscription of the same age discovered in 2003 says the monument is "the tomb of
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The irregular-shaped holes made into the monument are of later date, probably from the
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tombs from the Kidron Valley, associating them with characters and events from the
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flower. The upper part of the monument corresponds to the outline of a classical
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half-columns, flanked in the corners by quarter-columns and pillars (a so-called
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of that era opposed the building of such monuments by saying: "You do not make
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Jewish Funerary Customs, Practices and Rites in the Second Temple Period
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For centuries, it was the custom among passersby—Jews, Christians and
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Two panoramas, over 90 years apart, showing the Tomb of Absalom.
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and Tomb of Absalom (less visible in the 1988 photograph).
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for the righteous; their words are their commiseration."
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The Necropolis Of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period
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arrangement). The four square facades are crowned by a
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The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia
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Two panoramas, 126 years apart, from right to left:
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Index

Yad Avshalom

Hebrew
romanized
lit.
monumental rock-cut tomb
conical roof
Kidron Valley
Jerusalem
Tomb of Zechariah
Tomb of Benei Hezir
Absalom
King David
nefesh
Petra
finial


Tomb of Zechariah
Tomb of Benei Hezir


Mount of Olives
ashlars
cubical
Ionic
distyle in antis
Doric
frieze
triglyphs

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