Figure 6. Water drawing station built in the 1955 preservation. The stones on the right and the left used to protrude to provide standing space for a person drawing water with a bucket on a rope. They were broken off by vandals. 3-11-2015.
Figure 3. North side and NW corner of reservoir in 1905 photograph. The “draughted masonry” is exposed where the ancient coat of thick plaster (called opus signinum by Butler) has fallen off. The “coping of flat and well fitted slabs” is visible on top of the wall in the segment on the right.
Figure 60. Sediment from reservoir supplies municipal street side landscaping soil. 8-11-2015
Figure 25. Stone up 3. 24-10-2015.
Figure 5. Dedication of USAID funded re-plastering of the reservoir: “Inception of the repair of this reservoir was on 22 December 1954; and completion was on 28 February, 1955. The writer of the line of text was Rakan Ibn Awdah es-Serour.” 10-21-2015.
Figure 40. Pumping the puddles; the main challenge is to keep the water away from the soil. Shown here is a small pump provided by Mayor Hassan Fahed and his municipal staff. 7-11-2015.
Figure 26. Stone up 4. 24-10-2015.
Figure 8. Wadi Za’atari in Umm el-Jimal, 1-2-2012.
