Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig; Murray, John

Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

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Autor*in:: Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig

Titel:: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

Erscheinungsort:: London

Verlag:: Murray

Drucker:: Murray, John

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1822

Umfang:: XXIII, 668 S

Sprache:: Englisch

Signatur:: Rara B948t

Standort (Original):: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Autor*in:: Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig

Titel:: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

Erscheinungsort:: London

Verlag:: Murray

Drucker:: Murray, John

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1822

Umfang:: XXIII, 668 S

Sprache:: Englisch

Signatur:: Rara B948t

Standort (Original):: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

AMMAN. 360 building; it was an oblong square, filled with buildings, of which about as much remains as there does of the private dwellings in the lower town. The castle walls are thick, and denote a remote antiquity : large blocks of stone are piled up without cement, and still hold together as well as if they had been recently placed; the greater part of the wall is entire, it is placed a little below the crest of the hill, and appears not to have risen much above the level of its summit. Within the castle are several deep cisterns. At (m) is a square building, in complete preservation, constructed in the same manner as the castle wall ; it is without ornaments, and the only opening into it is a low door, over which was an inscription now defaced. Near this building are the traces of a large temple (n); several of its broken columns are lying on the ground; they are the largest I saw at Amman, some of them being three feet and a half in diameter ; their capitals are of the Corinthian order. On the north side of the castle is a ditch cut in the rock, for the better defence of this side of the hill, which is less steep than the others. The ruins of Amman being, with the exception of a few walls of flint, of calcareous stone of moderate hardness, have not resisted the ravages of time so well as those of Djerash. The buildings exposed to the atmosphere are all in decay, so that there is little hope of finding any inscriptions here, which might illustrate the history of the place. The construction shews that the edifices were of different ages, as in the other cities of the Decapolis, which I have examined. Iam sensible that the above description of Amman, though it notices ¬ all the principal remains, is still very imperfect; but a traveller ¬ who is not accompanied with an armed force can never hope to give very satisfactory accounts of the antiquities of these deserted countries. My guides had observed some fresh horse-dung near the water’s side, which greatly alarmed them, as it was a proof that

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