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.
Confirmé par le terrainSite fouilléAD 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.
- Découvert
- The Jewish Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem, 1970 — Nahman Avigad's excavation
- Conservé à
- In place, open as a museum, Jerusalem
- Comment il nous est parvenu
- Fouillé, ou encore debout là où il fut bâti.
Ce qu'elle montre
The house dates and identifies itself; it bears on the destruction of the city, not on any prediction of it.
Ce qu'en font les historiens
One of the best-preserved first-century domestic contexts in Jerusalem.
Dans l'Écriture
Se rattache à
Sources
- Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (1983)
Ces textes sont pour l'instant en anglais. Les traductions suivront.