The Broad Wall
A massive wall thrown up across the western hill, cutting through demolished houses, in the years Assyria was coming.
Підтверджено розкопкамиРозкопкиlate 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.
- Знайдено
- The Jewish Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem, 1970 — Nahman Avigad's excavation
- Зберігається
- In place, exposed and walkable, Jerusalem
- Як це дійшло до нас
- Розкопане або досі стоїть там, де його збудували.
Що вона показує
The wall is undated by any inscription; the eighth-century date comes from pottery and stratigraphy, and is the standard reading.
Як це використовують історики
A fixed point in the archaeology of Jerusalem's expansion in the late Iron Age.
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Джерела
- Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (1983)
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