Egyptian Knives and Lancets 225
Lancet-window 225
Ancient Roman Lantern 235
Modern Oriental Lantern 235j
Ancient Egyptian Lantern 235'
Ordinary Eastern Lantern 235
Architectural Lantern of St. Helen's 235
Copper Coin of Laodicea 237
The Hoopoe 240,
The Pewit Page 246
Lattice Window at Cairo 26S
Lattice-work at Cairo 269
Specimen of the Laudian MS 275
Lavatory at Selby 2S0
The Laver, after Theuius 2S1
The Laver, according to Paine 282
Costume of a Lazarist 300
Ancient Egyptians working in
Leather. .' SOS
View of Lebanon 310
A suppliant Native of Lebanon... 314
Felling Trees on Lebanon 314
Lectern at Ramsay Church 317
The Leek 324
Trigonella Fcenuvi-Grcecum 324
Ancient Legionary Soldiers 329
Ancient Egyptians cooking Len-
tiles 347
The Lentile 34S
Syrian Panther 370
Levitical City, Diagram I, a 394
Levitical City, Diagram I, 6 394
Levitical City, Diagram II 394
Levitical City, Diagram III 394
Levitical City, Diagram IV 394
Levitical City, Diagram V 395
Levitical City, Diagram VI, ot 395
Levitical City, Diagram VI, b 395
Egyptian Gnat magnified 422
Aquilaria Aijallochum 428
The Water-lily 432
White Lily 433
Scarlet Martagou 434
African Lion 446
Claw in Lion's Tail 446
Persian Lion 447
Lion at Arban 447
Lion let out of a Cage 447
Egyptian Hunting with a Lion — 448
A Lion devouring a Man 448
Ancient Egyptian Palanquin 455
Modern Persian Palanquin 455
Syrian Double Palanquin 455
Camel bearing the Hodaj Page 4.55
Chamceleo Vulgaris 469
Lacerta Stellio 470
Ancient Roman Bread 472
Ancient Egyptian Bread 472
Modern Egyptian wooden Lock. . . 477
(Edipoda Migrator ia 484
Acridiuvi Lineola 485
Acridiuvi Peregrinum 485
Locust flying 485
Dried Locusts 486
Locust-eating Bird 486
"Lot's Wife" 521
Coin of Lycia 584
Lych-gate at Blackford Church.. . . 584 Persepolitau Emblem of Macedon. 617
Coins of Macedonia 61S
Mosque at Hebron 021
Ancient Egyptian Cuirass 059
Jews' Mallow 684
Sea-purslane 684
Vicinity of Abraham's Cemeterv.. 6ST
Map of Mauasseh— East 090
Map of Manasseh— West 691
A tro])a Mandragora Ojjicinarum. . . 700
Tamarix Gallica 712
A Ihagi Maurorum 712
Modern Egyptian Mantle 718
Specimen of Odessa MS 722
Specimens of Greek MSS 72S
Maronite Sheik and Wife 769
Table of Prohibited Marriages 779
Mohammedan Bridal Procession, . 79T
Figure of Mars 812
Mary Queen of Scots 849
Rock of Massada 850
Mask Corbel 853
Masonry at Hebron 858
Pistacia Lentisciis 871
Mater Dolorosa ( 872
Ancient Egyptian Hoes 902
Ancient Throw-sticks 903
Coin of Masimin 1 916
Coin of Masimin II 917
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BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATUKE.
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Kaab, a celebrated Arabian poet, author of one of the seven poems which were suspended in tlie temple of IMecca, was originally a strenuous opponent of Mo- hammed, whose doctrines and person he satirized. He, however, recanted by writing a poem in honor of the prophet. As a reward, the prophet gave him his green mantle, which one of the descendants of Kaab sold for ten thousand pieces of silver. He died in 602.
Kaaba (Arabic Al-Kaahah, "Square House," or, more properly, now Beit-Alluh, "House of God") is the name of an oblong stone building inclosed in the great mosque at Mecca. From time immemorial tra- dition makes Mecca to have been a place of pilgrimage from all parts of Arabia " within a circuit of a thousand miles, interrupted only by the sea. The Kaaba, the Black Stone, and other concomitants of worship at !Mec- ca have a similar antiquity" (Muir, Mahomet, i, 211). There are intimations of the Kaaba to be found in He- rodotus and Diodorus Sicidus. It certainly existed be- fore the Christian rera (Sir W. Jones, Works, x, 35G ; BI. C. de Percival, i, 74 ; ii, 532). See Mecca.
Oriffin ami Histoi-y. — IMr. Muir (ii, 34) thinks the , Kaaba to be of Yemen origin, and to have been connect- \'l with the systems of idolatry prevalent in the south- eX' jiortion of the Arabian ])eninsiUa. The Mussulmans say that Adam first worshipped on this spot, after his expulsion from Paradise, in a tent sent down from heav- en for this purpose. Seth substituted for the tcift a structure of clay and stone, which was, however, de- stroyed by the Deluge, but afterwards rebuilt by Abra- ham and Ishmael. But this tradition may have arisen in connection with a traditional Jewish inscription found on a stone in the Kaaba about forty years before Jloham- med, and which would suggest the possibility that some remote Abrahamic tribe acquainted Avith SjTiac may have been at an early period associated with aboriginal Ai-abs in the erection of the Kaaba. Some have sup- posed it to have been devoted to the worship of Saturn (Zohal). Certain it is that it has been the holy em- blem at different periods of four different faiths. Sa- bxan, Hindu, Gueber, and Moslem have all held it ia veneration (Burton, iii, IGO). According to tlie Koran, it is " tliC ancient house," the first house built and ap- pointecl for God's worship (Sale's Koi-an, p. 276), and the guardianship of it was by express revelation given to Othman (Sale, p. 167).
It was originally without a roof, and, having suffered material damage by a flood, was considered to be in danger of falling. The treasures it contained were con- sidered insecure, and some of them were alleged to have been stolen. In A.D. 605 Mohammed rebuilt the edi- fice, but in A.D. 1626 it was again destroyed by a great torrent, and in A.D. 1627 was rebuilt substantially after its present form.