And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
The sculpturedlintel projects somewhat above the side-posts, but I could see nothing of the Hebrew inscription which some of the old writers mention as being over the door.
There was a single large stone cut into the shape of an arch, which had evidently been placed on the lintel of the principal entrance, like the one which stands to this day over the doorway of the great synagogue at Kefr-Birim.
The low lintel of the door, which had always forced him to stoop as he entered, the central table with the pewter candlesticks upon it, the elm chairs shining like mirrors in response to the Quakeress' maddening passion for cleanliness.
Sir Marmaduke paused a moment under the lintel which dominated the broad entrance.
A very cursory inspection of this text--an Initial Series from a lintel at Yaxchilan--will show that the uinal coefficient in C1 represents an impossible condition from the Maya point of view.
This inscription is not found on a stela but on the under side of a lintel over a doorway leading into a small and comparatively insignificant temple.
The student will note also that the date on Stela 2 at Quen Santo is less than a year later than the date recorded by the Initial Series on the Temple lintel from Chichen Itza (see fig.
Lintel 2 at Piedras Negras; hence comparative data are lacking for the determination of its essential element.
The first example presented will be the inscription on Lintel 21 at Yaxchilan, which is figured in plate 16.
At first sight it would appear that this early date indicates the time at or near which this lintel was inscribed, but a closer examination reveals a different condition.
Lintel 2 at Piedras Negras and on the tablet in the Temple of the Initial Series at Holactun.
Muluc 17 Tzec records the date of the erection of the structure of which this lintel is a part.
Muluc 17 Tzec indicates the "contemporaneous time" of this lintel and that 9.
B, On a lintelfrom the Temple of the Initial Series, Chichen Itza.
It should be noted in this connection that Cycle-10 Initial Series are occasionally recorded in the Dresden Codex, though the dates in these cases are all later than those recorded on the Chichen Itza lintel and the Quen Santo stelae.
Having got the door-lintel laid, the writer was not a little gratified on being welcomed, with acclamation, in at the Door of the Bell Rock Light-house.
A cornice of brass is formed on the lintel of the door answerable to an eaves-drop, in which a friction roller h is placed, for the chain of the crane, with which the stores are raised.
Limited as the height of the building still was, the formation of the door stamped a new character upon it, and the lintel gave it an additional appearance of strength.
The inference from Professor Doerpfeld's important observation is that the anta was intended to carry a lintel or an architrave reaching west.
The lintel like the orthostate is a block two courses high and may have the same exemption from any signs of contact, as far as the surface is concerned, with the interior of the wall.
The distance of the top course which could not have reached above the lintel of the west door was 8-1/4 feet above the bottom of the orthostates of the west wall.
The blocks above this orthostate are badly broken away except one just below the lintel which has some original surface preserved.
The top of the lintel in the line of the wall is broken away so that there, as in the case of the blocks below, no evidence of clamps can be expected.
She straightened by the door, and the hand on the lintel gripped until the nails went white.
As he passed the lintel the not insignificant form of Rette blocked his exit, en route for a cup she had left behind.
In the church-wall is part of a lintel representing an eagle, and a fine block with a head in bold relief, surrounded by a circle ornamented with honeysuckle pattern; the head is nearly five feet high.
The doorway, twenty-one feet broad, was spanned by a lintelin three pieces.
Moreover, the trine striking on the lintel of the door signifieth the threefold right which Christ hath in His Church why it ought to be opened unto Him.
On the lintel is sculptured the Lamb bearing the Cross, enclosed within a circle, flanked on either side by a nondescript animal; the whole supported by two crowned heads placed in niches in the jambs.
Joel glanced up at the lintel over the door, where Aaron's rod and a pot of manna carved in the stone were constant reminders to the daily worshippers of the Hand that fed and guided them from generation to generation.
When we came out of the door, I could not help looking up at the lintel on which is carved the pot of manna; for when they asked Him for a sign that they might believe Him, saying, 'Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness!
If charmed slaked lime be secretly rubbed on the lintel of a man's house before he starts out shooting, he will not kill any bird, and if rubbed on the threshold he will not kill any fourfooted animal.
The dog and the cat warn her from the outside and the Rakshi kills them and goes away leaving her thumb nails fixed to the lintel and her toe nails to the threshold.
The Countess fell back before the name and clutched at the lintel of the door; then recovered herself and laughed aloud.
But anon, when the latter came to a halt under the lintel and with his foot almost across the threshold, young Lalouet was upon him in an instant, barring the way to the inner sanctum.
The thunder-stone was placed over the lintel of the cow-shed for the same purpose as the winged disk over the door of an Egyptian temple.
The use of this design above the lintel of the gate brings it into homology with the Winged Disk.
Artemis is a goddess of the portal and her life-giving symbol in a multitude of varied forms is found appropriately placed above the lintel of doors.
On the lintel immediately above the doorway is a succession of small groups: first, the Annunciation; Mary stands to receive the Archangel Gabriel, who comes to announce to her that she is chosen to be the Mother of God.
On the lintel just below is the Last Judgment, where Saint Michael reappears, weighing the souls of the dead which Mary and John above are trying to save from the strict justice of Christ.
Occasionally surface weathering of the walls, particularly in Zuñi, exposes a bit of horizontal pole embedded in the masonry, the lintel of a window long since sealed up and obliterated by successive coats of mud finish.
Examples have been seen that seem to have been constructed with this object in view, for a slight pole, of the same kind as those used in the lintels, is built into the masonry of the jambs a few inches below the lintel proper.
In the construction of a paneled door the vertical stile on one side is prolonged at the top and bottom into a rounded pivot, which works into cup-like sockets in the lintel and sill, as illustrated in Fig.
A small window has been left immediately over the lintel of the newer door.
Frequently a particularly large tablet of stone is placed immediately upon the sticks, but this stone is never long enough or thick enough to answer the purpose of a lintel for larger openings.
Upon the upper stone rests one end of the wooden lintel supporting the long side, while the other end, near the corner of the room, is held in position by a light crotch of wood.
The lintel alone, being monolithic, has a certain independence (Fig.
Nothing can be clearer than the way in which the lintelobtained its peculiar character.
In the great pylon of Karnak the lintelover the doorway is a stone beam more than 25 feet long.
It was this representation that decided us to give a broken lintel to the doorway opposite to the centre of the royal pavilion at Medinet-Abou (Plate VIII.
It formed the lintel to the door of a house dating from the Greek or Roman period, for which purpose it had doubtless been carried off from some tomb.
Sometimes the name of the proprietor, sometimes a hospitable sentiment, was inscribed upon the lintel (Fig.
And what is the difference between the blood-stained linteland the divided sea?
She did not care to wander, however; she cared for nothing save to sit crunched up at the lintelof the hovel door and stare into vacancy until the dawn sent her back to the darkness within.
She heard a cry from Lewis bidding the others run in on the fire and stamp it out; but as she staggered to her feet still holding on to the lintel something else staggered out beside her.
Over the door is a lintel of white marble, with an Arabic inscription.
We took off our slippers before touching the lintel of the door, as the place was particularly holy.
Sophia 253 Ornament on the Brazen Lintel above the Principal Door of S.
Immediately above the door and below the mosaic, is a brass lintel on which may be clearly read the text of the book represented open upon a throne with a dove spreading its wings above.
The doorway consists of two tall pillars with a great lintel laid across the top.
