The Burnt House, AD 70
The destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 is preserved in a single burnt basement, down to the household's name and the last moments in it.
Vom Boden bestätigtAusgrabungsstätteAD 70
The basement of a priestly household destroyed in the Roman sack: ash, collapsed walls, a stone weight inscribed "of Bar Kathros" — a priestly family named in rabbinic sources — an iron spear, and the bones of a woman's arm reaching toward a doorway.
…the days shall come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
- Gefunden
- The Jewish Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem, 1970 — Nahman Avigad's excavation
- Heute in
- In place, open as a museum, Jerusalem
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
The house dates and identifies itself; it bears on the destruction of the city, not on any prediction of it.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
One of the best-preserved first-century domestic contexts in Jerusalem.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (1983)
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