Figure 2. Reservoir R7 in courtyard of House 52 before work began. 10 Oct 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 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 5. The energetic crew that completed the R7 excavation. 20 Oct 2017.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
Fig. 6. Supply channel created by the Masa’eid to direct the overflow from R13 to Reservoir R7. 2 Nov. 2016.
Figure 10. Twentieth Century surface supply channel collected runoff from open field to north of Reservoir R31. Oct 10, 2016.
Figure 22. Crew members begin cleaning of sediment and algae. 26 October, 2016
