EZEKIEL, Moses Jacob, American sculp tor: b. Richmond, Va., 28 Oct. 1844. He was graduated at the Virginia Military Institute 1866, having served in the Confederate army during the last year of his course. He studied art in Richmond and Cincinnati 1866-70, and Berlin, Germany, 1870-74, where he was the first foreigner to win the Michael Beer prize (1873). While there he studied under Prof. Albert Wolf, and was admitted to the Berlin Society of Artists on the merits of his colossal bust of Washington, now in Cincinnati. Later he went to Rome, Italy, where he has chiefly resided save for frequent visits to America. He has exhibited in the chief American and European expositions. Large and small, in cluding statues, portrait-busts, ideal groups, and relievos. His works number several hun dred of which the best known are or the Offering Rejected,' an early ideal bust that showed considerable dramatic talent ; 'Apollo and Mercury,' Berlin (1870) ; 'Religious Liberty,' Fairmount Park, Philadelphia (1874-76) ; bps relief portraits of Farragut (1872), and Robert E. Lee (1873) ; 12 marble statues of artists for
the Corcoran Art Museum. Washington (1880 82) ; marble busts of Beethoven (1884), Long fellow, and of Cardinal Hohenlohe (1888) ; bronze statue of Columbus in the Columbian Memorial building, Chicago, Ill.; statue of Mrs. Andrew D. White for Cornell University; bust of Lord Sherbrooke for Westminster Abbey; the fountain of Neptune for the town of Neptune, Italy; Confederate Soldiers' Monu ment in the National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., etc. In June 1903 the sculptor presented a bronze monument, 'Virginia Mourning Her Dead,' to the Virginia Military Institute.
ge'ber, a stopping the Israelites on their journey from t (Deut. ii, 8). It is probably indentical with the modern Ain-el-Ghudyan. It is men tioned also as the station of Solomon's fleet (I Kings, ix, 26; II Chron. viii, 17). Accord ing to Josephus it was known as Berenice in his day. Consult Musil, 'Arabia 'Petraa: Edom' (Vienna 1908).