Sep 6, 2016

Temple Tiles discovered in archaeology sifting project!

this is fascinating. in the sifting project that sifts through the dirt and rubble removed from the Temple Mount area by the Arabs, archaeologists have discovered pieces of marble flooring. After dating them and piecing them together, they realize they have discovered tiles from the floor of the Second Temple!

the tiles the pieced together indicate there were [at least] three different designs of tiles used in the Temple areas:





source: Walla, TOI



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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 06, 2016 8:32 PM

    Not sure why this is news now - I actually found one of these tiles myself on a trip to the sorting site about four years ago. It's definitely quite the feeling to hold something physical that came from the Beit HaMikdash.

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  2. Rafi G.September 06, 2016 9:53 PM

    maybe they only just now had enough and were finally able to put the pieces together and reconstruct what the tile actually looked like!
    that must have been a very exciting experience!

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  3. 2senseplainSeptember 07, 2016 6:08 PM

    The article says 3 patterns. What's the third?

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  4. Rafi G.September 07, 2016 6:10 PM

    the walla article has the various patterns, but I was unable to include the images here

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