Pool of Hezekiah--Built By the King of Judah

Name:

Bain, Robert E. M.

Description:

1 photograph; b&w

Provenance:

Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection

Physical Description:

25.4 x 18 cm ( 10 x 7 in).

Rights:

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

Notes:

The Pool of Hezekiah with the dome and bell tower of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the background.; The photograph is in a book with a typed description beneath. The description: "(II. Chronicles, xxxii:30.)--'This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.' The same pool is referred to also in II. Kings, xx:20, where it says: 'And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?' This pool is 240 feet long by 144 feet wide, and is rather shallow. At the bottom is natural rock, which is leveled and covered with cement, and it is furnished with water by a small aqueduct from Birket Mamila. Dr. Thomson says the water which fills the pool is still brought by an underground conduit from what is supposed to be the upper Gihon." The copyright year and photographer's name are printed at the bottom of the photograph, along with "Franklin Co Eng-Chi."; The photograph was not catalogued by Lazard--it was catalogued at LKCAJS.; Condition: Good

Collection:

Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)