Figure 23. The cleaned portion of exposed floor. Proper care of this water source will require periodic cleaning of the entire reservoir floor, at times when the entire water supply is used up. 27 October, 2016.
Figure 13. Removal of twentieth century reservoir cleanout. 12 Oct. 2016.
Figure 5. The energetic crew that completed the R7 excavation. 20 Oct 2017.
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.
Fig. 6. Supply channel created by the Masa’eid to direct the overflow from R13 to Reservoir R7. 2 Nov. 2016.
Figure 25. Team 2. The Group mostly responsible for clearing the deep stone layer from Quarry-Reservoir R19. 2 November, 2016.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
Figure 24. Team 1. The group that worked the first two weeks and is mostly responsible for the clearing and cleaning of reservoirs R7 and R31.
Figure 7. Reservoir R31 just after the cleanout began, 11 Oct. 2016.
