Figure 35. Attacking the middle 2: four hours later, 12:02 pm, 2-11-2015.
Figure 56. The following week some rains came. 17-11-2015. Photo by Muaffaq Hazza.
Figure 61. The north wall of Houses 87 (right) & 88 (left) exposed after the removal of the long-term reservoir cleanout mound from its south side. 10-11-2015. Photo by Muaffaq Hazza.
Figure 62. The crew. Ali Aqil, standing far right, was the group’s foreman whose work strategy enabled the completion of the reservoir reconditioning in four weeks. Photo by visitor, 7-11-2015.
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 22. Stone and soil removal – experimental; it proved very difficult to flip the stones over the top edge. 22-10-2015.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs of Byzantine to Modern Umm el-Jimal. R13 is the Great Roman Reservoir.
Figure 8. Wadi Za’atari in Umm el-Jimal, 1-2-2012.
