Biblical Archaeology Review

Meir Ben-Dov, “Excavations and Architectural Survey of the Archaeological Remains Along the Southern Wall of the Jerusalem Old City,” in Hillel Geva, ed., Ancient Jerusalem Revealed (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994), pp. 311–320.

Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem, p. 225.

Nahman Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1983), p. 225.

Vita Sabae 72, 175.15.

Procopius, De aedificiis V, 6.1, H.B. Dewing, ed. and trans., Loeb Classical Library (London: Heinemann, 1940).

This article is excerpted from Oren Gutfeld, Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem Conducted by Nahman Avigad, 1969–1982, Vol. V: The Cardo (Area X) and the Nea Church (Areas D and T), Final Report (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2012). Special thanks go to the Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, which for many years provided the resources that enabled the processing and publication of the finds from the Jewish Quarter Excavations.

I thank Hillel Geva, the series editor of the Jewish Quarter publications and director of the Israel Exploration Society, for his guidance and advice, and above all for his trust. Special thanks go to my teacher and friend, Professor Yoram Tsafrir, for being my guide and mentor, and for his advice and kindness throughout my Ph.D. dissertation.

Cyril of Scythopolis, Vita Sabae, in Lives of the Monks of Palestine, trans. R.M. Price (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian, 1991), esp. pp. 182–187.

(Atlanta: SBL, 2003).

Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond (Leiden: Brill, 2011).