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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2015
Print publication year:
2015
First published in:
1865
Online ISBN:
9781316136584
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316136584
Subjects:
Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology of Europe and The Near and Middle East, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology, Religion, Religion: General Interest
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Despite his lack of formal training, he became an expert in the field of Indian architecture. The topography and temples of ancient Jerusalem also fascinated him. This 1865 collection of two lectures summarises his controversial topographical and architectural argument that the location where Constantine erected the original Holy Sepulchre was the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. Fergusson then describes the Temple in its successive forms, arguing against the view that the rock known as the foundation stone was the site of the Jewish altar. The work is illustrated throughout with plans and drawings. Fergusson's Cave Temples of India (1880) and the two-volume revised edition of his History of Indian and Eastern Architecture (1910) are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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