Tomb of Zachariah in Wikipedia
The Tomb of Zechariah is an ancient stone monument adjacent
to the Bnei Hazir tomb.
Architectural description --
The monument is a monolith -- it is completely carved out of
the solid rock and does not contain a burial chamber. The
lowest part of the monument is a crepidoma, a base made of
three steps. Above it there is a stylobate, upon which there
is a decoration of two ionic columns between two half ionic
columns and at the corners there are two pilasters. The
capitals are of the Ionic order and are decorated with the
egg-and-dart decoration. The upper part of the monument is
an Egyptian-style cornice upon which sits a pyramid.
Interestingly the fine masonry and decoration that is
visible on the western side, the facade, is on the western
side alone. On the other sides of the tomb the work is
extremely rough and unfinished; it seems as if the work was
abruptly stopped before the artists could finish the job.
Identification of the tomb --
According to a Jewish tradition, which is first suggested by
the 1215 CE writings of Menahem haHebroni, this is the tomb
of the priest Zechariah Ben Jehoiada, a figure that the Book
of Chronicles claims to have been stoned:
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of
Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said
unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the
commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye
have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you. And they
conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the
commandment of the king in the court of the house of the
Lord[1]
There is no documentary evidence to validate the traditional
claim, and it does not contain a body as it is a solid
object carved from the rock.[2]
The style of the construction, which includes Hellenic
details such as Ionic columns, is similar to that of the
Bnei Hazir tomb, and several writers think that they are
near-contemporary with one another; scholars specialising in
funerary practices and monuments have ascribed a first
century CE date to the Tomb of Zechariah[3], making it
impossible to be the tomb of the 7th/8th/9th century BCE[4]
Zechariah ben Jehoiada. It has been proposed that the Tomb
of Zechariah is actually the nefesh (a Jewish funerary
monument similar to the Greek stele) for the Bnei Hazir
tomb[5], which is accessed from a rock-cut passage adjacent
to the monument, and which states that it has an adjacent
magnificent structure, an item not otherwise identified.
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