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Jerusalem, the Greek Colony
Final Report

 Annette Nagar 
8/1/2009


1. General view of the excavation, looking west.  


2. Wall 1, looking west.  



 

During July 2007, a trial excavation was conducted in the Greek Colony in Jerusalem (Permit No. A-5190; map ref. NIG 22033/62997; OIG 17033/12997), prior to the construction of a residential building. The excavation, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, was directed by A. Nagar (photography), with the assistance of Y. Ohayon and R. Abu Halaf (administration) and R. Bar-Natan (pottery reading).
A single square was excavated next to the intersection of El‘azar Ha-Moda‘i and Amazya Streets, on the slope of a gentle hill that descends southward. The excavation area was disturbed during the modern era. Remains of a northeast-southwest oriented wall (W1; length 1.1 m, width 0.4 m; Figs. 1, 2), which was built of medium-sized limestone fieldstones arranged in a row on bedrock and preserved two courses high (0.3 m) were discovered. Bedrock was exposed throughout most of the excavation area. Based on the construction of the wall and its location along the slope it probably was a retaining wall of a farming terrace. A meager amount of ceramic finds, dating to the Roman and Byzantine periods and not in situ, was recovered from the excavation. A large stone quarry that dated to the Byzantine period had been exposed c. 100 m east of the excavation in the past (HA-ESI 118).


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   1. General view of the excavation, looking west.


   2. Wall 1, looking west.

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