Fig. 6. Supply channel created by the Masa’eid to direct the overflow from R13 to Reservoir R7. 2 Nov. 2016.
Figure 14. Leveled area looking south-southwest across Reservoir R19. 25 October 2016.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
Figure 5. The energetic crew that completed the R7 excavation. 20 Oct 2017.
Figure 13. Removal of twentieth century reservoir cleanout. 12 Oct. 2016.
Figure 21. The dry south west corner of Reservoir 13 with its deposit of plastic bottles on top of algae ‘rooted’ in about 3 cm of new sediment. 26 October, 2016.
Figure 17. Close up view of quarry marks. Below the 10-cm scale stick the groove in which wood wedges soaked with water were jammed is clearly visible. Because of the fine-grained igneous texture, the basalt blocks split of smoothly, similar to a flint sliver knapped from a core. 1 November, 2016.
Figure 18. The undisturbed sediment area in Reservoir R16. 29 October, 2016.
