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 Photographs taken by Arthur Chrysler while working as a volunteer at the City of David excavations in 1984
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Area D1 - Dr. Yigal Shiloh (top left), Eilat Mazar (top center), Donald Ariel (bottom center)




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Area E1 - Middle Bronze Age wall (facing south)



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Area E3 - Iron Age walls, floors and toilet



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Area D2 - Hellenistic columbarium



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Area G - Under construction (Last look at tumble of Phoenician Ashlars)



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Area G - Tumble of Phoenician Ashlars



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Area D1 (View from Hellenistic, upper ridge wall)



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Area D2 - Yigal Shiloh on ridge



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Area D2 (from upper ridge)



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Area D2 - Hezekiah's wall meets bedrock (note cupmark uncovered by Arthur Chrysler)



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Area D2 - Removing pottery



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Area D1 - Dr. Yigal Shiloh (on ladder), Yair Shoham (holding meter stick)



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Area D2 - Cobblestone on top of mid-slope wall (Nehemiah 12:31) See Qedem 19, Figure 11



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Area D2 - (Note oven between men in forground)



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Area E3 - Columbarium at bottom-right (See Qedem 19, Plate 17:1)



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Area E1 - Within the line of the city-wall, the pocket in the rock in which Middle Bronze II building remains were preserved (See Qedem 19 Plate 20:2)



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Areas D1 and D2 (Midslope wall finally meets Upper ridge) Nehemiah 3:19



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Area D2 - Arthur Chrysler clearing Hellenistic Columbarium



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View of Eastern slope from village of Silwan



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Hezekiah's mid-slope wall passed over the Jebusite wall here and continued on up to the Horse Gate in Ophel (Neh. 3:26,27,28)



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Kathleen Kenyon's excavations revealed this corner of the Jebusite wall (center) with Hezekiah's wall running over it (Facing north)



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Hezekiah's mid-slope wall over corner of Jebusite wall (Facing South)



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Area D2 - Removing pottery near standing stones



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Area D2 - Clearing oven on plastered floor



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Tomb T1 in the City of David



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Entrance of passageway located behind the mid-slope wall. The rock-cut pool lies at the end.



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1st century addition to Jebusite tunnel.



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View from inside Tomb T1



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Entrance of passageway leading to Jebusite tunnel above Gihon Spring



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Area D1 - Dr. Shiloh above tomb T4 - (Hellenistic wall on bedrock at top of ridge)



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Construction in area G



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Construction near Stepped-Stone Structure



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Construction near 'House of Ahiel'



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House of Ahiel



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Walkway under construction near 'House of Ahiel'



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Southern and Northern towers on either side of Stepped-Stone Structure



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View from top of tomb T1



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Bedrock surrounding Gihon Spring
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Restoration of the East Gate on the Temple Mount
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Seam near south-east corner of the eastern wall of the Temple Mount - Herodian (left) - Hasmonean (right)
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Hezekiah's 'Broad Wall' in northwest part of Jerusalem
                               
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After sharing a drink of water from my canteen, these boys from Silwan had some diffulty on the crude bridge in Area E
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This photo was taken in the Guy Ben Hinnom (Gehenna) valley which is located just south of the Old City of Jerusalem. The building is what the French call a “charnier” and it served as the first Crusader cemetery in the Holy Land dating back to the 12th century. / Photo Credit: Arthur Chrysler