The Broad Wall
A massive wall thrown up across the western hill, cutting through demolished houses, in the years Assyria was coming.
Confirmado por el terrenoYacimiento excavadolate 8th century BC
A seven-metre-thick city wall, still standing to shoulder height, built in a hurry across the western hill — straight through houses that were demolished to make room. Isaiah says of that emergency: "ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall."
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
- Hallado
- The Jewish Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem, 1970 — Nahman Avigad's excavation
- Se conserva en
- In place, exposed and walkable, Jerusalem
- Cómo llegó hasta nosotros
- Excavado, o todavía en pie donde se construyó.
Qué muestra
The wall is undated by any inscription; the eighth-century date comes from pottery and stratigraphy, and is the standard reading.
Cómo lo usan los historiadores
A fixed point in the archaeology of Jerusalem's expansion in the late Iron Age.
En la Escritura
Se relaciona con
Fuentes
- Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (1983)
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