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Unearthing Jerusalem Unearthing Jerusalem 150 Years of Archaeological Research in the Holy City Edited by Katharina Galor and Gideon Avni Winona Lake, Indiana Eisenbrauns 2011 © 2011 by Eisenbrauns Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America www.eisenbrauns.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Unearthing Jerusalem : 150 years of archaeological research in the Holy City / edited by Katharina Galor and Gideon Avni. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-57506-223-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Excavations (Archaeology)—Jerusalem—History—Congresses. 2. Excavations (Archaeology)—West Bank—History—Congresses. 3. Antiquities, Prehistoric— Jerusalem—Congresses. 4. Jerusalem—Antiquities, Roman—Congresses. 5. Jerusalem—Antiquities, Byzantine—Congresses. I. Galor, Katharina. II. Avni, Gideon. DS109.9.U54 2011 956.94′42—dc23 2011040274 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American Na- tional Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. †Ê Contents Unearthing Jerusalem: 150 Years of Archaeological Research. . . . . . . . . . ix Gideon Avni and Katharina Galor Where Three Roads Meet: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Frank E. Peters Part 1 The History of Research British Archaeological Work in Jerusalem between 1865 and 1967: An Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Shimon Gibson The German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (Deutsches Evangelisches Institut für Altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Ulrich Hübner The American Archaeological Presence in Jerusalem: Through the Gates of the Albright Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Joan R. Branham The École Biblique et Archéologique Française: A Catholic, French, and Archaeological Institution. . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Dominique Trimbur The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Franciscans of the Studium Biblicum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Michele Piccirillo † The Israel Exploration Society (IES) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Ronny Reich The Departments of Antiquities and the Israel Antiquities Authority (1918–2006): The Jerusalem Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Jon Seligman Part 2 From Early Humans to the Iron Age Prehistory of the Jerusalem Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Ofer Bar-Yosef v vi Contents The Archaeology of Early Jerusalem: From the Late Proto-Historic Periods (ca. 5th Millennium) to the End of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1200 b.c.e.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Aren M. Maeir Jerusalem in the Iron Age: Archaeology and Text; Reality and Myth. . . . . . 189 Israel Finkelstein Part 3 The Roman Period The Location of the Second Temple and the Layout of its Courts, Gates, and Chambers: A New Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Joseph Patrich Has the Adiabene Royal Family “Palace” Been Found in the City of David?. . 231 Doron Ben-Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets The Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem of the Late Second Temple Period and Its Surroundings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron A Domestic Quarter from the Second Temple Period on the Lower Slopes of the Central Valley (Tyropoeon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Zvi Greenhut Coins from Excavations in the Domestic Quarter of the City of David, Jerusalem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 Donald T. Ariel On the “New City” of Second Temple Period Jerusalem: The Archaeological Evidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Hillel Geva Aelia Capitolina: A Review of Some Current Debates about Hadrianic Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 Jodi Magness Part 4 The Byzantine Period The Urban Layout of Byzantine-Period Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Oren Gutfeld Epigraphic Finds Reveal New Chapters in the History of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the 6th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Leah Di Segni The Hinterland of Jerusalem during the Byzantine Period . . . . . . . . . . . 361 Jon Seligman Contents vii Part 5 The Early Islamic and Medieval Periods From Hagia Polis to Al-Quds: The Byzantine–Islamic Transition in Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 Gideon Avni Jerusalem and the Beginnings of the Islamic City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Donald Whitcomb Early Islamic and Medieval City Walls of Jerusalem in Light of New Discoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah Ayyubid Jerusalem: New Architectural and Archaeological Discoveries . . . . 453 Mahmoud Hawari Mamluk and Ottoman Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 Robert Schick Unearthing Jerusalem: 150 Years of Archaeological Research Gideon Avni and Katharina Galor Israel Antiquities Authority Brown University Early Beginnings On a cold winter morning in January of 1851, a small group of people ap- proached the monumental façade of an ancient rock-cut burial cave located north of the Old City of Jerusalem. The team, consisting of two Europeans and a num- ber of local workers, was led by Louis-Félicien Caignart de Saulcy—descendant of a noble Flemish family who later was to become a distinguished member of the French parliament. As an amateur archaeologist and a devout Catholic, de Saulcy was attracted to the Holy Land and Jerusalem in particular and was obsessed by his desire to uncover some tangible evidence for the city’s glorious past. However, unlike numerous other European pilgrims, researchers and adventurers before him, de Saulcy was determined to expose the evidence by physically excavating ancient sites. His first object of investigation constitutes one of the most attractive and mysterious monumental burial caves within the vicinity of the Old City, from then onward to be referred to as the “Tomb of the Kings” (Kubur al-Muluk). By conduct- ing an archaeological investigation, de Saulcy tried to prove that this complex rep- resented no less than the monumental sepulcher of the biblical Davidic Dynasty. His brief exploration of the burial complex in 1851 led to the discovery of several ancient artifacts, including sizeable marble fragments of one or several sarcophagi. It would take him another 13 years to raise the funds for a more comprehensive investigation of the site. On November 17, 1863, de Saulcy returned to Jerusalem with a larger team to initiate what would later be referred to as the first archaeologi- cal excavation to be conducted in the city (Silberman 1982: 66–72). From de Saulcy’s report, we know that he encountered the same obstacles that numerous modern and contemporary scholars experience. Obtaining an excava- tion permit from the local authorities was notoriously complicated. Furthermore, he had to conduct his work under the pressures of the local neighbors, who were extremely suspicious of these strangers digging on what they rightly considered to be their territory. Finally, he had to overcome the fierce objections against the dig- ging up of ancient burial places expressed by the local Jewish ultra-orthodox com- munity (de Saulcy 1853, 1865). These difficulties and pressures, however, did not prevent de Saulcy from proceeding with his ambitious project, because he was de- termined to uncover evidence of the Judean royal sepulchers and to provide physi- cal proof for the biblical narrative. Soon after he began his exploration, however, ix

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