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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...their upper ends. Thus, there were Bezek 1 Josephus (xvi Anil. v. 2; i. Wars, xxi. 9), Pliny (H.N. v. 15), and other ancient writers speak of the palms of Jericho, Phasaelis, Archeiais, and Livias; cf. Ptolemy, v. 16, 7. Herod left Phasaelis to Salome (xvii. Ant/. viii. I, ii. Wars, vi. 3). She bequeathed Phasaelis and Archeiais, 'where is a great plantation of palm-trees' (xviii. Anil. ii. 2), 'her plantation of palmtrees that was in Phasaelis' (ii. Wars, ix. 1), to Julia, wife of Augustus. Brocardus (twelfth century) mentions the village Phasellum in the Glior, and Eli Smith discovered the name Fusail attached to ruins, a great spring and the wady. The position of Phasaelis, therefore, is beyond doubt. But the name of Archeiais has not been found. Josephus calls it a 'village ' (xvii. Antt. xiii. I), and obviously puts it near Ncara--probably Noopritf of the Onom., five miles from Jericho. The Tahii!. Peuling. fixes it on the Roman road, twelve miles north of Jericho. If we take this figure as right (another, stating that Archeiais is only twenty-four miles from Scy thopolis, is wrong, since the whole distance from Jericho to Scythopolis is forty-eight, no) fifteen, as Schiirer puts it, Div. I. vol. ii. 41), that would bring us to a heap of ruins, nearly two miles south of Phasaelis, at the mouth of the W. Unkur edh Dhib. The P.E.F. map places Archeiais at the mouth of the Y. Far'ah, and Boettger (Topogr. Hist. Lexicon zu den Schrifttn des Ft. Josephus) at Buseiliyeh, in the same valley. on the high-road from Shechem to Bethshan, Tirzah (if Tirzah be Teiasir, and not, as is more probable, Tulluzah) at the junction of the Bethshan and Abel-Bezek Tirzahi Meholah roads, and Thebez at the top of the Thebezroad down the Bukei'a. Some fortress must surely have ...

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