| Show QUESTION QU OF SITE OF HO HOLY LY SEPULCHER Finding Finding- o oj Jerusalem j Wall Wal Raises Raile Point i t Part Pan of of the wall Inclosing JIU Agrippa one of the thelast Salem alem hull built by lust last Jew Je 1st 1111 kings sad Hud destroyed by W Titus has hOIl bt been D recently About sIxty yards of the wall 11 Io some me e four tour yard yards Ic m 10 thickness have been uncovered J by the the Exploration society I This discovery has aroused deep In fn Interest in inIn terest In archeological and religions circles If this Is 11 the third of the series of walls built around J Jeru Jerusalem JeruSalem fIU salem It Is argued l' l It It brings Into fate question the authenticity of the site lie of the holy sepulcher which Is thus placed p outside the city walls ails 1 1 i t The third wall was commenced by hy Herod Agrippa about 44 40 t A. A 1 D. D and andas andryas ryas was as interrupted by t the e Roman nOmaD govern governor gover Rover n later Inter by bythe bythe by bythe nor r of c completed the Jews before re rethe the final trial siege e of of the tie city Hy ny all accounts there were three wails walla which protected Jerusalem on the north built success successively fely both for tot forthe the protection of the weakest side of ot the def defenses and t t 1 r afford room for forthe forthe the steady g growth o lh of the city nt at the beginning of ot the Christian era Iloth the first and second walls wall were stand ng at 01 the tine time lime of Christ and the place of crucifixion and burial must have hate been hern outside them Some scholars have contended the son sonic song recognized recognized site lite of the Holy sepulcher Is Impossible because It Is shut within ancient Jerusalem It beIng being be be- betag ing tag n kno n that crucifixions did not nol take stake take place within the city walls wall Adherents of this view especially a a large number of the l English com com- communIty community who have always entertained doubts about the location of the Holy sepulcher see further confirmation In Inh Inthe Inthe the h o of what Is believed to tobe tobe tobe be the third wall nail The Jewish Exploration society v whIch Is conducting these excavations excava excava- holds with Dr W. W F. F Albright director of the American School of 01 Oriental Research here that the discovery discovery dis dis- covery of the wall does not seriously affect this long 1 question Doctor Albright admits that the situation Is awkward Shall we decide for the holy sepulcher sepulcher sepulcher cher am and against the evidence or against the holy sepulcher and also against other evidence of little less cogency Doctor Albright asks I Neither horn hor of the Is sary The present north north- wall of tie the i city dates back only to Hadrian's Hadrian time and represents a R wholly new new line of wall We are forced to the conviction that archeology rarely affects the question of holy rites The location of pt the Holy sepulcher will remain j Just Justas st stas as c certain or Just jest as obscure as It lt Is today I Alen with Ihl this discovery there has hol holbern Dean bern unearthed d n a mosaic belonging to the late n Byzantine period According to the Greek Creek Inscription on the mosaic t this was t the e tomb of a u nun near which there therl was also apparently a 8 small Christian chapel |
