I'd like to start out Monday's blog (only a day late) by showing you a picture that I promised to take for Mike Miller. So, Mike, here it is:
(View of the Sea of Galilee walking down from Hippos)
(A View of the Sea of Galilee from the pottery washing location)
When I left you (pl) on Friday I hinted at the significance of what we are uncovering. On Monday the "deep probe" was expanded to the entire square instead of just our small area. So, we're pretty far down in the hole now. I wanted to give you, the reader, the best quality picture I could. I had to wait to get a good picture from Dr. Schuler, so this is like the official record picture of what we've uncovered. So, without further acclaim, here is an image of what D5 has uncovered thus far.
What we've uncovered is, most likely, late Roman period...probably shortly before the Byzantine era began and the Eastern empire forgot how to build things in a quality way (sort of like a lot of shoddy buildings I've seen tossed in back in the States). Again, there are several theories about what we've uncovered and more needs to be un earthed to find out what exactly this is. One theory is that we've uncovered, what Dr. Schuler calls, a teminos. The Teminos is the area outside the temple itself in which sacrifices and services would've been held. But there needs to be a lot more proof before that is anywhere close to certain. It seems to be a plaza of some kind, with maybe some evidence of walls on the edge. Because the workmanship is so shoddy Dr. Schuler had a hard time believing that it could be Roman but Arthur Seagal came by the hole and confirmed for him that it is before the Byzantine era (at least for now that is the verdict, these dig directors change their minds a lot). We're in the process now of uncovering the other half of our square in C5 to see if and how far the paved section extends.
A few of my dedicated readers noticed that I didn't include a funny and/or embaressing picture at the end of my Jaresh blog. If you look back at the original funny post, I did say it would be infrequent. However, I'll end this post with an embaressing picture from the bus trip back to Israel from Jordan. This should teach Nikolai and Liz to fall asleep on a bus loaded with people that have readily available cameras. Enjoy!
That's it for today.
Keep it real America!
In Christ,
Jake
P.S. -- All Star game is tonight so be sure to watch! Go National League!
What we've uncovered is, most likely, late Roman period...probably shortly before the Byzantine era began and the Eastern empire forgot how to build things in a quality way (sort of like a lot of shoddy buildings I've seen tossed in back in the States). Again, there are several theories about what we've uncovered and more needs to be un earthed to find out what exactly this is. One theory is that we've uncovered, what Dr. Schuler calls, a teminos. The Teminos is the area outside the temple itself in which sacrifices and services would've been held. But there needs to be a lot more proof before that is anywhere close to certain. It seems to be a plaza of some kind, with maybe some evidence of walls on the edge. Because the workmanship is so shoddy Dr. Schuler had a hard time believing that it could be Roman but Arthur Seagal came by the hole and confirmed for him that it is before the Byzantine era (at least for now that is the verdict, these dig directors change their minds a lot). We're in the process now of uncovering the other half of our square in C5 to see if and how far the paved section extends. A few of my dedicated readers noticed that I didn't include a funny and/or embaressing picture at the end of my Jaresh blog. If you look back at the original funny post, I did say it would be infrequent. However, I'll end this post with an embaressing picture from the bus trip back to Israel from Jordan. This should teach Nikolai and Liz to fall asleep on a bus loaded with people that have readily available cameras. Enjoy!
That's it for today.Keep it real America!
In Christ,
Jake
P.S. -- All Star game is tonight so be sure to watch! Go National League!
Thanks Jake. Those pictures of the sea of Galilee are awesome. And I really appreciate that you took time to post - keep it up man.