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 220 A History of Art in Sardinia and Jud.fa. § 2. Elevation of the Temple. The problem which we approach in this second part of our study would be insoluble were we wholly to depend for our infor- mation upon Kings and the prophet. Fortunately, however, where these fail, contemporaneous monuments, Jewish and Phoenician, will supplement lacuna; ; albeit we are bound to confess that our plan is on too reduced a scale adequately to show our results (Plate II.). It is superfluous to say that invention and conjecture will play a far more important part than heretofore ; although FlG. 138. — Fragment of the Harani Wall. aiming at presenting an imago veri, determined in a certain measure by the ground plan. Keeping in sight this all-important relation between plan and elevation, we do not despair of reach- ing our goal. The great terrace wall seen in front of the area, corresponds with Solomon and Herod's enclosure. From the remains of these stupendous structures, exhibiting stones finely wrought, with sunken face and accentuated batter, we have borrowed the lower part of our wall ; whilst the upper portion has been restored from a fragment of Herod's rampart, at the north-east angle of the haram ; still in situ (Fig. 138), and in good preservation. There