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The many lives of Jerusalem’s building blocks

By Ronny Reich, Ya‘akov Billig

This is an article for people who like puzzles. Not crossword puzzles, but stone puzzles: The challenge is to figure out what the stones were used for—not once, but at three different times, for three different purposes. In solving this puzzle, you will discover a theater, 042a latrine and a palace—all in Jerusalem. The palace is easy. The stones were found in the wall of an eighth-century C.E. palace built adjacent to the Temple Mount by the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty (661–750 C.E.). It is called Umayyad Palace IV because it is the fourth in a series […]

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Footnotes

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See Nahman Avigad, “How the Wealthy Lived in Herodian Jerusalem,” BAR 02:04; see also Avigad, “Jerusalem Flourishing—A Craft Center for Stone, Pottery, and Glass,” BAR 09:06, and “Jerusalem in Flames—The Burnt House Captures a Moment in Time,” BAR 09:06.