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.
Fakapapau'i 'e he keliFeitu'u kuo keliAD 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.
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- The Jewish Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem, 1970 — Nahman Avigad's excavation
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- In place, open as a museum, 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 house dates and identifies itself; it bears on the destruction of the city, not on any prediction of it.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
One of the best-preserved first-century domestic contexts in Jerusalem.
'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.