Figure 21. Smaller stones were carried up the steps in a grand 15 minute ‘parade’ in which the 20 members of the Commodus Gate Preservation team participated. 21-10-2015.
Figure 22. Stone and soil removal – experimental; it proved very difficult to flip the stones over the top edge. 22-10-2015.
Figure 64. Muaffaq Hazza, field director, and Ali Owaisi, DoA rep, discussing project strategy. 5-11-2015.
Figure 24. Stone up 2. 24-10-2015.
Figure 4. 3 November, 2015, 110 years later, and 60 years after re plastering of the masonry and bedrock. The bosses of the draughted masonry remain visible as bumps in the thick layer of cement, but the “coping” has been removed. 3-11-2015.
Figure 12. A huge quantity of stone was thrown into the reservoir in the past 20 years. Foreman Ali Aqil serves as scale, 19-9-2015.
Figure 60. Sediment from reservoir supplies municipal street side landscaping soil. 8-11-2015
Figure 50.Ali Aqil sweeping up, 13-11-2015. Photo by Muaffaq Hazza.
