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‘Atiqot 75 (2013)
ISBN 2948-040X
A Fountain and Other Remains from the Middle Ages in Ramla
(with contributions by Nitzan Amitai-Preiss and Robert Kool)
(Hebrew, pp. 51*–70*; English summary, pp. 173–174)
Lior Rauchberger and Aviva Bouchenino
Keywords: water supply, installations, numismatics
The excavation, conducted 500 m east of the White Mosque in Ramla, exposed architectural remains dated to the Abbasid and Mamluk periods. Pottery vessels from the Ottoman period were also found, but no contemporary architectural remains. Finds from the Abbasid period include pottery—among them a jug with an Arabic inscription—and stone and glass vessels. A fountain and a pool from the Mamluk period were uncovered. In the center of the fountain was a sunken basin in the form of an eight-pointed star. Eight vertical clay pipes embedded in debesh were revealed outside the eight points of the star, and another pipeline entered the base of the fountain and supplied it with water. Pottery and glass vessels from the Abbasid and Mamluk periods were recovered in the fill excavated north and south of the base of the fountain, indicating that it was probably built during the Mamluk period. The Mamluk-period finds included pottery vessels, coins and glass vessels.