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EAST WALL OF NOBLE SANCTUARY. (By permission of the Palestine Exploration Fund.)
From the south-east angle
the foundation of the wall
rises, to about the middle of
the eastern side, and then
falls again, down to the Golden
Gate and beyond. The
construction of the Golden
Gate is still a vexed question;
it is possibly a reconstruction
of comparatively late date,
but it stands on the ancient
foundations of a gateway,
which in some measure correspond
with those of the
Triple Gate. North of the
Golden Gate the rock still
falls, and the depth of rubbish
in the depression is in
the deepest part 125 feet.
Yet the wall is built up from
the bottom, and is carried
across the depression to the
higher rock surface north of
it. It extends beyond the
north-east angle of the
Haram without showing any
break at that point; and this
seems to favour the idea that
a break may be found more
to the south, where the
Haram terminated before
Herod enlarged its area. In
fact the masonry north of
the Golden Gate is of a
rougher sort than that south
of it. But it is impossible
to examine the buried por-
