The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia: (Monomotapæ Imperium)Methuen & Company, 1902 - 396 páginas |
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The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia: (Monomotapæ Imperium) Richard Nicklin Hall,W. G. Neal Vista completa - 1902 |
The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia: Monomotapae Imperium Richard Nicklin Hall,W. G. Neal Vista completa - 1904 |
The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia: Monomotapae Imperium Richard Nicklin Hall,W. G. Neal Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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Acropolis ancient ruins Arab Arabia archæologists bangles batter-back Belingwe boulders built Bulawayo buttresses cemented floor check pattern chevron coast copper crucibles débris heaps Dhlo-dhlo Dhlo-dhlo Ruins diorite discovered district dwts east elliptical plan elliptical temple erected evidently exploration extensive feet six inches Filabusi first-period five feet four feet gold beads gold crucibles gold ornaments gold wire gold-smelting furnaces granite granite blocks granite kopje height herring-bone pattern hill Himyaritic hundred inclosures inside Insiza Inyanga iron Kaffir Khami kopje kraal later periods main entrance main walls Makalangas Mashonaland massive Matabele Messrs miles Mombo Monomotapa natives north-east north-west numerous occupied Ophir original floors Phoenician plan of building plateau platform portion Portuguese pottery present tops probably quartz Reef River rock rounded walls RUINS Situation Sabæans Sabao-Arabians Sabi Schlichter second period soapstone Sofala South-East Africa south-west stones summit terraces Umnukwana width workmanship Zambesi Zimbabwe architecture Zimbabwe period
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Página 33 - And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver : it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Página 33 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Página 33 - And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones : there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
Página 193 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Página 194 - Mashonaland at the instance of the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Página 33 - Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal...
Página xii - We must give it up, that speechless past; whether fact or chronology, doctrine or mythology; whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or America; at Thebes or Palenque, on Lycian shore or Salisbury Plain: lost is lost; gone is gone for ever.
Página 142 - ... the title Osiris can be seen; but there is no trace of a cartouche with it. The wig and the scourges in the hands point to this being a figure of the King himself: but his name cannot be traced in the lower inscription. As to the source, the figure is certainly genuinely ancient, and by its smell it has been buried in moist earth (not in an Egyptian tomb), and has not been kept long by an Arab. All this agrees with the account of its finding.
Página 25 - None of them succeeded in penetrating so far into the interior. The seaboard or coast region was known under the name it still bears, that of ' Sofala,' which signifies in Arabic a plain or low country. Sabia lies more inland behind Sofala, and is supposed by some authorities, including Josephus, and no less a personage than the author of the Koran, to be the ancient kingdom of the love-sick queen who visited Solomon when in all his glory, and of whom Mohammedan, Abyssinian, and Jewish writers relate...
Página 61 - Where else but Rhodesia did the ancient Sabœans obtain the vast supply of gold which they purveyed to Phoenicia, Egypt and the rest of the then known world ? The only answer possible at present is : Rhodesia ; and the later discoveries in Rhodesia only serve to strengthen and emphasise this answer.