Today we continued to dig in the small room south of the Church. Our agenda was to find the floor and level the soil. We also had to fill in the hole we dug in the Church the day prior.
Today we removed about two feet of soil. At the very end of the day, I found what appeared to be paving stones; many were missing. We think tomorrow by breakfast the entire room will be complete. As I mentioned in another blog, when we dug the hole we removed the foundation for the mosaic floor. For this reason, when we refilled the hole I had to repave it will stones. This took time to get the stones all level but it came out looking good.
On a tour I took with the
University of Haifa Team, I learned that all the masonry stones were plastered
over. The plaster covered all the seams of
the rocks, Therefore, leaving it to appear like one single wall. The plaster when painted would look similar
to dry- wall. Many times inscriptions or
pictures were carved into the face of the walls.
Love the picture haha... not quite embarassing enough for blackmail but I have faith that you can scrounge up something in the next week :P
Oh and you don't look like you're a druggie, I take it back. I'll try and be a nice person but I can't really promise anything :)