Entrance to Tiberias

Name:

Bain, Robert E. M.

Description:

1 photograph; b&w

Provenance:

Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection

Physical Description:

25.4 x 17.6 cm ( 10 x 7 in).

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

An arched entrance in a stone wall with the Sea of Galilee in the background.; The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(Deuteronomy,iii:17.)--'The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.' The Chinnereth referred to in the 17th verse of the third chapter of Deuteronomy is Lake Galilee which we see through this gate of entrance into the city of Tiberias. Herod Anticas was the founder of the city of Tiberias. Through him Roman luxury was introduced into the northern part of Palestine, which extends from the sea of Tiberias to the sources of the Jordan near Caesarea Philippi. He surrounded the palace which he built in Tiberias with the dwellings for his court, with amphitheaters, bath houses, and temples. Josephus says that in order to make room for all his buildings he was under the necessity of removing several graves found upon the site of the city which he wished to build. There is a tradition that Christ refused to enter Tiberias because it was built upon the graves of the dead of his country." See 5446BAI/LVii172CAJS (Voyager # 362773).; The photograph was not catalogued by Lazard--it was catalogued at LKCAJS.; Condition: Good

Collection:

Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)