 | John Lewis Burckhardt - Travel - 1829 - 492 pages
...meritorious to pray : the spot is called El Madjen, and supposed to be that where Abraham and his son Isrnayl kneaded the chalk and mud which they used in building...specimen of mosaic. There are two large slabs of fine verde-antico in the centre, which, according to Makrizi,* were sent thither as presents from Cairo,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 860 pages
...borders equal in height to its breadth. At the mouth hang« what is called the beard of the Myzah, a gilt board, over which the water falls. This spout...the Myzab, was laid down in AH 826, and consists of various-coloured stones, forming a very handsome specimen of mosaic. There are two large slabs of fine... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1856 - 514 pages
...At the mouth hangs what is called the beard of the Myzab : a gilt board, over which the water flows. This spout was sent hither from Constantinople in...reported to be of pure gold. The pavement round the Kaabah, below the Myzab, was laid down in AH 826, and consists of various colored stones, forming a... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1856 - 570 pages
...At the mouth hangs what is called the beard of tho Myzab ; a gilt board over which the water flows. This spout was sent hither from Constantinople in AH 981, and is reported to bo of pure gold. The pavement round the Kaabah, below the Myzab, was laid down in AH 826, and consists... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1857 - 484 pages
...At the mouth hangs what is called the beard of the Myzab ; a gilt board, over which the water flows. This spout was sent hither from Constantinople in...reported to be of pure gold. The pavement round the Kaabah, below the Myzab, was laid down in AH 826, and consists of various coloured stones, forming... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1857 - 482 pages
...a gilt board, over which the water flows. This spout was sent hither from Constantinople in AH 98l, and is reported to be of pure gold. The pavement round the Kaabah, below the Myzab, was laid down in AH 826, and consists of various coloured stones, forming... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1906 - 506 pages
...hither from Constantinople in AH 981, and is reported to be of pure gold. The pavement round the Kaabah, below the Myzab, was laid down in AH 826, and consists...specimen of mosaic. There are two large slabs of fine verdi antico1 in the centre, which, according to Makrizi, were sent thither, as presents from Cairo,... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1906 - 510 pages
...Ismaeel." ! mouth hangs what is called the beard of the Myzab; a gilt board, over which the water flows. This spout was sent hither from Constantinople in...reported to be of pure gold. The pavement round the Kaabah, below the Myzab, was laid down in AH 826, and consists of various coloured stones, forming... | |
 | Esther Singleton - Architecture - 1912 - 462 pages
...the mouth hangs what is called the beard of the Myzab, — a gilt board over which the water flows. This spout was sent hither from Constantinople in...reported to be of pure gold. The pavement round the Kaabah, below the Myzab, was laid down in AH 826, and consists of various coloured stones, forming... | |
 | Patrick Hughes, Thomas Patrick Hughes - Religion - 1995 - 774 pages
...borders equal in height to its breadth. At the mouth hangs what is called the beard of the Mi'zab, a gilt board, over which the water falls. This spout was sent hither from Constantinople in An 981, and is reported to be of pure gold. The pavement round the Ka'bah, bolow the Mi'zab, was laid... | |
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Myzab, or water-spout, through which the rain-water collected on the roof of the building is discharged, so as to fall upon the ground ; it is about four feet in length, and six inches in breadth, as well as I could judge from below, with borders equal... 
