منظر لآثار مدينة تدمر - مأخوذ من الزاوية الشمالية الشرقية ، من كتاب آثار تدمر

The first painting

View of the ruins of Palmyra - taken from the northeastern corner

In the following explanation of what was included in this painting, we referred to the paintings that include parts of the intended building. If there is a part that is not explained, this is due to the severity of its destruction, or we deliberately deleted it to avoid repetition.

part One :

(1) A. Sun Temple.

B

Square tower

C was built by the Muslims and now stands at the site of the old temple gate. The wall of the temple surrounding its courtyard. The parts of this temple and what is in its courtyard can be described from panels 3 to 21.

D. Lands planted by the Arabs with olives and palm trees, which they protected with mud walls. E. A huge pillar and most of it has fallen. And some of the sculptures lying around it indicate the existence of a building that was standing

in this place. The diameter of this column at the base is five and a half feet.

F. A ruined mosque and its minaret.

G. column of the same size as column E.

H. arch. You find a description of it in plates 12 through 26. Between this arch and the building indicated by the letter W, a distance of not less than 4,000 feet is occupied by the long street, whose directions you find in painting 2.

1 . Columns whose capitals and roofs are still intact, as if it were the portico of a temple whose precincts were demolished. K. Four granite columns, one of which is still standing, and three of them collapsed. Their bodies are made of one piece, and their diameter is the same as the diameters of the street columns.

1. The current and correct name is Temple of Bel.
Explanation of the second part of the first panel

L columns. A number of which, through its structure, painting (2), we thought belonged to a circus, but upon scrutiny, this seemed impossible to us because the space is not sufficient. The diameters of these columns are two feet four inches and they are spaced M. Small temple. See a description of it from panels 27 to 31. . Four huge bases. See its details from panels 32 to 34. P. The colonnade of P. seems to be part of a portico ending at the long street near the huge bases already mentioned, having diameters of two feet and six inches, and spaced seven feet and three inches apart.

Six feet ten inches apart.

Precincts of a temple with some of its porticoes.

Q. The effects of a Christian church most likely.
Explanation of the third part of the first panel:

R. Nothing remains of this huge building except for these four columns and their exquisitely decorated ceiling. W. cemetery. At the end of the long street. See plates 36 to 42. 2. The Ottoman castle on top of the hill.

. These columns were built as described in Figure 1.

T. Burial traces

V. Building we think that Payne Douglasian. See plates 44 through 52.

X. Traces of Ottoman (Islamic) fortifications.

Y . burial See panels 53 and 54.

a. cemetery. Look from plates 55 to 57.
After seeing this comprehensive scene (and we found it greater and greater than any expectation), we were taken to one of the Arab houses, and there were about thirty of these houses in the courtyard of the Great Temple.

The comparison between the grandeur of the ancient buildings and the house in which we analyzed is too vast. The inhabitants, both men and women, are beautiful in complexion, and the women among them, despite their dark complexion, are generally beautiful. They paint their fingertips red, their lips blue, their eyebrows and eyelashes black, and they wear large earrings of gold or silver in each of their noses and ears. Harmony We have concluded from this that the atmosphere and environment of Palmyra is the same as that which came in Longines' article entitled "A Message in Perfection." Its sky was beautiful throughout our stay, except for one afternoon, when there was some drizzle, preceded by a storm that carried a lot of desert sands, where the sky was blackened, and from it we learned about these whirlwinds, which in the past claimed the lives of the convoys of Muntaha.

in its entirety. These inhabitants provided us with mutton and goat meat, even if we stayed with them for a long time

This meat would have become scarce, but fortunately for them we were satisfied with what we had done in a short time.