The Broad Wall
A massive wall thrown up across the western hill, cutting through demolished houses, in the years Assyria was coming.
Fakapapau'i 'e he keliFeitu'u kuo kelilate 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.
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- The Jewish Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem, 1970 — Nahman Avigad's excavation
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- In place, exposed and walkable, Jerusalem
- Na'e a'u mai fēfē kiate kitautolu
- Na'e keli hake, pe 'oku kei tu'u 'i he potu na'e langa ai.
Ko e me'a 'oku ne fakahā
The wall is undated by any inscription; the eighth-century date comes from pottery and stratigraphy, and is the standard reading.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
A fixed point in the archaeology of Jerusalem's expansion in the late Iron Age.
'I he Folofola
Fekau'aki mo
Ngaahi ma'u'anga fakamatala
- Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (1983)
'Oku 'i he lea faka-Pilitānia 'a e ngaahi fakamatala ko 'eni he taimi ni. 'E muimui mai 'a e liliu.