(24-10-2018, 04:24 PM)VViews wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I wonder if there might be traces of anchiton in some versions of those.About Alexander's Gates there is a Hebrew version (that I can't read) of the legend in:
Israël Lévi - You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - Revue des Études Juives 3 (1881), p. 274
Translated to Latin :
Tunc continuo deprecatus est deum Alexander impensius exaudivitque ejus deprecationes et precepit deus duobus montibus quibus est vocabulum promunctorium boreum, et adjuncti sunt ad invicem usque cubitos xii, et statim construxit portas heneas et circumfudit eas antichiton quod a ferro non corrumpitur nec ab igne solvitur.
Talis est enim natura anchiton, quod ferrum constringet in comminationem ignemque, ut aqua extinguit et nullus prevalet ad eos intrare nec illi ullo modo exinde exire.
In the French translation of the Hebrew text, next page, there is no specific word for the preparation of iron, lead and copper that is meant to prevent melting by fire and breaking under the blows of a hammer.
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