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‘Atiqot 101 (2020)
ISBN 2948-040X
The City of David (‘Ir David), Siloam Road: A Plastered Pool adjacent to the Siloam Pool
(Hebrew, pp. 71*–86*; English summary, pp. 137–138)
Zvi Greenhut and Gabriel Mazor
Keywords: Jerusalem, First Temple period, Second Temple period, water supply, numismatics, First Jewish Revolt
In the excavation conducted east of the Siloam Pool, a plastered pool was partially exposed along a segment of the outer face of the dam wall. The pool was dated, based on the plaster that coated it and the pottery and coins retrieved from its foundations, to the later part of the first century CE. These findings attest that the pool was constructed during the Great Revolt, probably in its last year, and was in use for a short time only.