them, resembling in some degree a bird, but believed to represent a winged sun or disc, possibly the emblem of the Sun god. On each handle, above and below the wings, are some Phœnician letters, corresponding in one case to LMLK ZPH, and in the other to LK SHT. At 3 feet east of the angle a hole was discovered scooped out of the rock, and in it was found a little earthen jar, standing upright as though it had been purposely placed there.
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MASONS' MARKS, S.-E. ANGLE. (By favour of the Palestine Exploration Fund.)
More interesting still, Warren discovered on some of the
lower stones near the south-east angle a number of
marks in red paint, with two or three characters also
inscribed with the chisel. The late Emanuel Deutsch
declared them to be partly letters, partly numerals, and
partly special masons' marks, exactly corresponding to
some which he found on the substructures of the harbour
of Sidon, and the very oldest ruins in the city of Tyre.
As we know from the Bible that Solomon employed
Phœnician masons to build the Temple, this discovery
was thought at first to prove the Solomonic age of this
