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| Title: The "First Wall" of Jerusalem during the Second Temple Period. An Archaeological-Chronological Note Secondary Title: EL Volume: 18 Pages: 21-39 Type: Journal Article Year: 1985 Abstract: "Since the end of the previous century, several large segments of the "First Wall" around the south-western hill of ancient Jerusalem have been revealed. This accumulated archaeological evidence, together with the description by Josephus, makes the First Wall the best known of the three defensive walls of the city at the end of the Second Temple period. Evidence from the excavations has also clarified the fact that this wall originated in the late First Temple period (8th-7th centuries BCE), as verified by Josephus (Wars V, 143). The Hasmoneans rebuilt this wall around the south-western hill, along the same line, and there were successive reconstruction's until the wall was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. Three major phases of construction can be defined within the remains of the First Wall. These architectural phases were already identified by Johns along the section of the wall which he revealed in the courtyard of the Citadel. The present paper demonstrates that these building phases are typical of the entire line of the First Wall around the south-western hill, basing on the archaeological data accumulated in recent excavations". Keywords: Archaeology, topography, local and regional history |