Materials used in the Wall of the Enclosure. 185 To sum up, the south face, the south-west and north-east angles, are distinguished by the largest number of courses still in situ, exhibiting monumental stone blocks of admirable workmanship. Now we have shown that the south and north sides were precisely the points where the activity of Herod was more particularly exercised ; that to do this, he had to break through the wall of Solomon and build beyond it. Nor is this all ; the mouldings in illlllfl! X'% t i ll 77 1 Mi Fig. 125. — Tomb of El-Manasseh. De Vogué, p. 47. the portions which we have called Herodian, are of decidedly Grseco- Roman character, notably about the double and triple gates. It has been sought to fix the age of these stones, from characters observed here and there on the blocks, and which were made with a sharp point or red painted. 1 But MM. Ganneau and De Vogué consider these signs, as did the late Emanuel Deutsch, 2 as masons' 1 Recovery, pp. 142, 143. 2 " Letter on the characters found by C. Warren at the south-east angle of the haram area" {Quarterly Statements, Palestine Exploration Fund, p. 33, 1869). See also Plans, Elevations, etc., Plates XXL, XXIL, and XXIIL, where the characters are reproduced full size.
