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The cannons are aimed, for the moment, at cattle upon the glacis, and children batting at the sky with sticks.

Instead, the succeeding Jewish kingdom under Hasmonean rule cut into the glacis during construction in later years.

But the rubble turned out to be carefully placed rocks that formed a glacis, or a defensive slope protruding from a massive wall.

Mr. Safire wrote that the ambassador “used a word I never heard before to describe the country that lies between the Soviet Union and the gateway to the Persian Gulf: ‘Afghanistan might one day be intended by the Soviets to be a glacis.’

On another part of a wall, Cox was part of an excavation that uncovered a glacis, a defensive structure in early fortresses.