Figure 22. Stone and soil removal – experimental; it proved very difficult to flip the stones over the top edge. 22-10-2015.
Figure 5. Dedication of USAID funded re-plastering of the reservoir: “Inception of the repair of this reservoir was on 22 December 1954; and completion was on 28 February, 1955. The writer of the line of text was Rakan Ibn Awdah es-Serour.” 10-21-2015.
Figure 19. Stone removal part 3. 19-10-2015
Figure 48. The last bit of sediment disappearing, 10 am, 13-11-2015. The team had chosen to work Friday instead of Saturday, to have their Grand Finale a day early! Photo by Muaffaq Hazza.
Figure 9. Supply Channel, NW corner of Umm el-Jimal, 1-2-2012
Figure 64. Muaffaq Hazza, field director, and Ali Owaisi, DoA rep, discussing project strategy. 5-11-2015.
Figure 2. Butler 1913 Ill. 138. The Great Reservoir; View from the Southeast. Archaeological Archives, accessed November 25, 2015, Identifier # 925; http://vrc.princeton.edu/archives/items/show/10746.
Figure 3. North side and NW corner of reservoir in 1905 photograph. The “draughted masonry” is exposed where the ancient coat of thick plaster (called opus signinum by Butler) has fallen off. The “coping of flat and well fitted slabs” is visible on top of the wall in the segment on the right.
