The city is shown as viewed
from the air, surrounded by walls. The main streets are porticoed
and start from a plaza, just inside the northern gate, where
a column is standing alone.
Religious and public buildings are represented with red gabled
roofs. The Basilica built by Emperor Constantine on the place
of the death and resurrection of Christ presents a big yellow
(gilded) cupola to the west and stairs to the east. Before the
name of Jerusalem the inscriptions put its new attribute of "Holy
City".
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Jerusalem (Jos 10:1) of which Adonizedek was
king, and then the Jebusites, after which it was also named Jebus,
and which David drove away after a long time, and made
the city into the capital of Judaea, as he purchased there a
place for the temple and left the charge of building it to his
son Solomon. Josephus says that this is the city which the Scripture
calls Salem, of which Malchizedek was king. It fell into the
lot of Benjamin. (Eusebius, Onomasticon 106:1-6; Jerome
107:1-8) |
