Two Thousand Year-Old Evidence of the Siege in Jerusalem

June 2013 - Three complete cooking pots and a small ceramic oil lamp were uncovered inside a small cistern in a drainage channel that runs from the Shiloah Pool in the City of David to Robinson’s Arch, in archaeological excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting near the Western Wall. Thursday, June 27, 2013. Three complete cooking pots and a small ceramic oil lamp were uncovered inside a small cistern in a drainage channel that ran from the Siloam (Shiloah) Pool in the City of David to Robinson’s Arch near the Western Wall. Recently a small cistern belonging to a building was exposed in archaeological excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority near the Western Wall, in the vicinity of Robinson’s Arch in the Jerusalem Archaeological Park. Inside the cistern were three intact cooking pots and a small ceramic oil lamp that date to the time of the Great Revolt (c. 66-73 CE). The vessels were discovered inside the drainage channel that was exposed in its entirety from the Siloam Pool in the City of David up to Robinson’s Arch.