Water in Antiquity Conference, Israel 14-20 October 2012 Yardenna Alexandre Israel Antiquities...

Water in Antiquity Conference, Israel 14-20 October 2012

Yardenna AlexandreIsrael Antiquities Authority

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THE INVERTED SIPHON PIPELINES TO TEL BET YERAH-AL-SINNABRA

Israel Antiquities Authority

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BET YERAH

EXCAVATION

R. JORDAN

The Earthwork Damage

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Basalt Pipeline


Basalt Pipeline


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Clay pipeline

Clay pipeline uncovered by mechanical digger


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Clay pipeline below basalt pipeline cut by 1960s water pipe

Clay pipeline


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The Finds


660-680 CE

Plan and section of basalt and clay pipes


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Basalt blocks in courtyards


Basalt blocks presented as pipeline at the Yardenit

Secondary use as drinking fountain at Degania


• Where did the basalt pipeline come from?

• Where was it going? • When was it built? • What is the relationship

between the clay pipe and the basalt pipe? A. Saarisalo

R. Amiran

Basalt pipe blocks next to the old road from Moshavat Kinneret to Kibbutz Kinneret, 1950

Berenice Water Channel


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Tell Bet Yerah


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Ummayad bathhouse hypocaust and circular pool, 1950s excavations

Tell Bet Yerah clay pipes


Clay pipeline adjacent to bathhouse

Clay pipeline in present excavation

Bet Yerah/al-Sinnabra inverted siphon pipeline: Reconstruction

Drawing


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By Stephen Rosenberg

Berenice Aqueduct

al-Sinnabrabathhouse

Jordan river

Hippos-Sussita


Sea of Galilee

Sussita

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Credits and Consultations• Meqorot water company (finance) • R. Mishayev and M. Kahan, IAA (surveying) • Y. Shmidov, IAA (drafting)• A. Shapiro, IAA (GPS, petrography) • H. Tahan-Rosen, IAA (artifacts drawing)• L. Kupershmidt, IAA (metallurgical laboratory)• C. Amit, IAA (coin photography)• G. Bijovsky, IAA (numismatics) • Y. Gorin-Rosen, IAA (glass) • M. Hartal and W. Atrash, IAA (Tiberias Excavations)• S. Paz, Institute of Archaeology Tel Aviv University

(Tel Bet Yerah Archaeological Expedition)• T. Tsuk, chief archaeologist National Parks

Authority (Ancient water systems, some photographs)

• Z. Ahipaz, chief water engineer National Water Authority (modern water systems)

• M. Eisenberg, Haifa University (Hippos-Sussita Expedition)


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THANKS

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