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Archaeologists excavating the site around the Pool of Siloam in the 1880s have noted that there was a stairway of 34 rock-hewn steps to the west of the Pool of Siloam leading up from a court in front of the Pool of Siloam. [17] The breadth of the steps varies from 27 ft (8.2 m) at the top to 22 ft (6.7 m) at the bottom. [17]
The Siloam Tunnel (also known as Hezekiah's Tunnel), an Iron Age water supply system where the Siloam inscription was found; The Siloam Pool - two connected pools, an upper one from the Byzantine period at the exit of the Siloam Tunnel, and the recently discovered, lower pool dating to the Hasmonean part of the Second Temple Period.
The Valley of Gihon. The spring rises in a cave 20 feet by 7, [3] and is located 586 yards (535 m) northwards of the Pool of Siloam. [2] Being intermittent, it required the excavation of the Pool of Siloam, which stored the large amount of water needed for the town when the spring was not flowing.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on el.wikipedia.org Κολυμβήθρα του Σιλωάμ; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Piscina de Siloé
In 2004, Shukron and archaeologist Ronny Reich excavated the Second Temple period Pool of Siloam. The find was formally announced on August 9, 2005. [ 1 ] The pool was used for Jewish healing rituals and is cited in the New Testament as the site of a healing miracle of Jesus.
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The Pool of Bethesda was sometimes identified by commentators with the modern so-called Fountain of the Virgin, in the Kidron Valley, not far from the Pool of Siloam, or alternatively with the Birket Isrâ'il, a pool near the mouth of the valley, which runs into the Kidron south of St. Stephen's Gate.
In addition to the (3 ft high) exit near the Siloam pool, the channel has several small outlets that watered the gardens facing the Kidron Valley. [ 15 ] Similar to the qanats of ancient Persia, the canal or culvert, carved into the rock, led from a main water source, and was meant to channel the current to a lower place where water was needed ...