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 20. Reservoir 13 with water remaining to an average depth of one meter. In the foreground one can see the shelf of exposed bedrock floor and the algae bloom in the shallower water. 26 October 2016.
Figure 2. Reservoir R7 in courtyard of House 52 before work began. 10 Oct 2016.
Fig. 6. Supply channel created by the Masa’eid to direct the overflow from R13 to Reservoir R7. 2 Nov. 2016.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
Figure 14. Leveled area looking south-southwest across Reservoir R19. 25 October 2016.
Figure 25. Team 2. The Group mostly responsible for clearing the deep stone layer from Quarry-Reservoir R19. 2 November, 2016.
Figure 3. Excavation of the rubble approaching completion. 25 October 2016.
Figure 13. Removal of twentieth century reservoir cleanout. 12 Oct. 2016.
