Figure 28. While stones were being removed, another part of the team began removing the soil using buckets and ropes. The strategy was to remove the thinner layers from the edges where bedrock was higher to isolate the deeper and thicker layer in the middle. This and the following 20 photographs show the soil ‘melt’ away until the final remnant is removed from the deeper center. 20-10-2015
Figure 64. Muaffaq Hazza, field director, and Ali Owaisi, DoA rep, discussing project strategy. 5-11-2015.
Figure 25. Stone up 3. 24-10-2015.
Figure 36. Each of two teams marked off squares for removal. 4-11-2015
Figure 40. Pumping the puddles; the main challenge is to keep the water away from the soil. Shown here is a small pump provided by Mayor Hassan Fahed and his municipal staff. 7-11-2015.
Figure 9. Supply Channel, NW corner of Umm el-Jimal, 1-2-2012
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs of Byzantine to Modern Umm el-Jimal. R13 is the Great Roman Reservoir.
