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Show stone is stiii kept in this museum, which i under the direction of the Turkish ar-chawlogist. ar-chawlogist. Hamdi Bey. who became known several years ago by his est Bive excavaf ons oi sarcophagi at Siden. The cast which the university has ob-tuned ob-tuned u in every particular a faithful foc-simile of the original-Philadelphia. '1 fS'oceFrom the Structure I King Solomon, vc - H Jflff PENNSYLVANIA, 8 a Part of the University- " Very Notable jj Belie lb(, mast valuable and interest- ni oduitions to the University Mliecatt of a Greek inscrip- tvered at Jerusalem some years $ i-Biversity of Pennsylvania ob- session of this cast, in conneo-5 conneo-5 r it8 Babvlonian expedition, efforts "of the Hon. 0. S. '!,naerly I-itod SLlUe3 minister uwple. The University of i .'made an attempt to secure a 'is inscription, and, by interest- dreary Bayard, permission was from t'ie "lrul'el'ial museum at iannle to have a cast of the cs'ription uiade and forwarded. : liomrer, arrived in such a fjilion that it was practically lhea professor Millington,, of college, at Constantinople, and er Strauss have secured two ad-jiis ad-jiis for this country, one hav totho University of liochester iicrto the University of Penn-The Penn-The copy belonging to the rot Femisylvania was badly jtho transportation, but has Hcntly mended to have dcw ;., Harvard and Yale, as well stlicran Theological Seminary rr, and the Protestant Episco-;ir Episco-;ir school, have applied for fac-lliiscast fac-lliiscast for their libraries. . OUT OF THE INSCRIPTION. . . resting story is connected with ;trj of this inscription. On the lav, 1871, the French explorer, Ganucau, who spent many Jerusalem, and to whom the n Paris owes a number of its imens, was examining the par-ions par-ions walls of the old Moham-hool Moham-hool in Jerusalem, near the "Via about 150 feet' iiorth' of .'the all The. Frenchman, with the curiosity of an archaeologist, wiring every stone that showed of having been cut or chiseled Inlianus. While he was thus en-I en-I noticed on a large block of tjectins a few inches above the several Greek letters. Early I riptions in Jerusalem are ex-I ex-I rare, anil, accordingly, he as-lwlfthat as-lwlfthat no Mohammedan was I bin), and then proceeded to lay lot the stone. lie no Buspicipn he did not rely re-ly long, and before leaving filled Irth about the stone as it had Ire. The next day , he returned I proper implements, uncovered I and found that it was a block lo, with an area of .3 by 2 feet, I chiseled and showing seven B well preserved Greek inscrip-lie inscrip-lie interpretation presented no las the characters were large lie. The inscription read as folio fol-io Gentile is to enter within the of the temple. Whosoever dis-rule dis-rule vill incur the penalty of lai iiumediately concluded that I must formerly have, belonged mile of Herod, and a few years lo birlh of Christ was part of a lionncd nu iuclosure about the Pie of the Jews. Josephus re-It re-It on the southern and eastern t!ie Temple, parallel to the por-I'lwl por-I'lwl by Solomon and by Herod, Is a wall several feet high, in I certain intervals, there were ll'Laiiii inscriptions, forbidding I to enter the court of the Tem-I Tem-I workmanship and the size of I discovered by Ganneau cwre-locisel? cwre-locisel? with the description'' Josephus, and tho peremptory e inscription leaves little room jiliat the stone actually formed I " all surrounding the Temple. I'TtEJisTlNu ILLUSTRATION. I hiUtion inscribed on this piece I- thousands of years ago forms l-iiag couiiuentury to the story f the twenty-first chapter of the Apostles, where it is said that N Asia stirred up all the people F jul because he "brought Greeks lli0 temple and hatii polluted IRCfc (For they had seen be-f be-f "iu in the city Trophimus, an l whom they supposed that f hroiiyht into tho temple.) And I1')' was moved, and the people jr:and they took Paul and f ont of the temple: and forth-I'loors forth-I'loors were shut." FJtho' the Jews is much more Iwrstood and seems quite natu-I natu-I w' see by this inscription bow fup' ,'uurded the entrance into f ! ' auJ what a severe penalty ' I1 ''fil upon Gentiles for entering rut court or incisure. :,is made to the same feature fwucliapterof tho Epistle to the F', where Paul save that Christ paw, "who hath made both fl Jews) one, and hath bro-I3 bro-I3 the middle wall of partition." I plural that tho discovery of i T."1' st."n,i cou1'1 '",t; be tePt ! iifcoidiugly Ganneau made it r letter to The Athenaeum, and I -oiOKraph on the meaning and I .!? Mt' tbe inscription. But f "Uenipt was made to secure the jy" Louvre, at Paris, the pos- fund SCh0l Il0U8e where ifc was ltv. ,er tlle 'mpression, which is Me&t in the east, that every lUm t DCt i8 worth an im' leT .n?on?l. demauded $10,000. I t'rU i 1 Sorernor of Jerusalem L e discovery of ' the stone he r uPand brought to his palace, t 'umseif offered it for sale at Le a no buver. Suddenly rPpetred, auj no traee 0f u roend anywhere, 7hen', thir-f;s thir-f;s 'ter this, Dr. Mordtmann. of I "P-9, a well known Semitic I 3 one dav examining the I h the Turkish' museum, Tshi-l',m Tshi-l',m Constantinople, he discov-1! discov-1! stone, and published his L in the journal of the German |