Jerusalem, the Western Wall Plaza Excavations, 2005–2009 (original) (raw)
IAA Reports 63, 2019
This volume is the first in a series describing the results of the salvage excavations conducted in the northwestern part of the Western Wall Plaza, between the years 2005 and 2010, 2017 on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The remains of the Second Temple period - the northernmost section of te Low Level Aqueduct, and other installations are described in Chapter 2. The architecture and stratigraphy of the Eastern Cardo - the main thoroughfare of Aelia Capitolina, in the Roman and Byzantine periods (second–early seventh centuries CE), are described in Chapter 3. The architectural decoration of the Cardo is addressed in Chapter 4 (Orit Peleg-Barkat), and the board games that were incised on its flagstones are discussed in Chapter 5 (Michael Sebbane). The coins of the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods are published in Chapter 6 (Gabriela Bijovsky). The archaeological finds within their urban context are briefly discussed in Chapter 7 (Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah). A geological overview of stone utilization in Jerusalem and the site appears in Appendix 1 (Dan Gill). The list of loci and walls was compiled in Appendix 2 (Shua Kisilevitz).
IAA Reports 67, 2021
This monograph is the third volume in the final report of the excavations of the Eastern Cardo in the northwestern part of the Western Wall Plaza, conducted on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) between the years 2005 and 2010, 2017. This volume presents the remains of quarries at the site (chapter 1) and small finds of the Early Roman to Byzantine periods (chapters 2-16).Chapter 2 presents the large assemblage of glass finds recovered from the Roman dump, and other locations around the site (Yael Gorin-Rosen). Chapter 3 documents further glass finds uncovered in the later excavations (Natalya Katsenelson). Chapter 4 presents the assemblage of Early Roman chalk vessels from the Roman refuse dump (Shua Kililevitz); Chapter 5 describes a first-century BCE flan mold (Donald T. Ariel); Chapter 6 discusses pieces of fresco wall paintings (Silvia Rozenberg) that probably originated from nearby Early Roman residences; and Chapter 7 presents a small number of groundstone objects (Brigitte Ouahnouna). Chapter 8 presents the assemblage of metal objects from the Roman refuse dump (Guy D. Stiebel); Chapter 9 describes three Roman military bread stamps (Leah Di Segni); and Chapter 10 presents the fragment of a clay brick bearing a stamp impression of the Roman Tenth Legion discovered in a sealed fill during further excavations at the site (Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah). Chapter 11 discusses the faunal assemblage from the Roman refuse dump (Liora Kolska Horwitz), Chapter 12 presents the results of radiocarbon analyses of a number of samples from the Roman refuse dump and the fill below the Cardo’s paving stones (Elisabetta Boaretto). From later fills come several opus sectile tiles that probably originated in nearby Early Roman residences (Chapter 13; Brigitte Ouahnouna); and Chapter 14 is a catalogue of 20 identified coins retrieved from various contexts in the later excavations, comprising a small addition to the main corpus of coins presented in WWPE 1 (Gabriela Bijovsky). Chapter 15 discusses a small assemblage of molluscs from the Roman refuse dump and Byzantine contexts (Henk K. Mienis), and Chapter 16 presents fragments of Byzantine architectural elements and furniture discovered in secondary use in Early Islamic walls and earthen fills (Lihi Habas). Appendix 1 is the list of loci and walls of the major excavation seasons, and Appendix 2 is a list of selected loci from the 2017–2018 excavations at the site. The pottery of the Roman and Byzantine periods from the Western Wall Plaza excavations are presented in: Jerusalem, Western Wall Plaza Excavations Volume 2, The Pottery From the Eastern Cardo, by Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom.
Jerusalem, Excavations in the southwestern corner of the Western Wall plaza
Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel, 121, 2009
A bedrock-hewn rectangular cavity was exposed in the southwestern corner of the Western Wall plaza. It was situated further along the row of rock-hewn rooms to its north, on the bedrock cliff that separates the Upper City of Jerusalem from the area west of the Temple Mount, where the Western Wall plaza is today .