Figure 9. Reservoir R7 after cleanout, with 20th century plaster intact. 27 October 2016.
Figure 11. Reservoir R19 with soil heaps; looking to southwest. 11 Oct 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 13. Removal of twentieth century reservoir cleanout. 12 Oct. 2016.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
Figure 2. Reservoir R7 in courtyard of House 52 before work began. 10 Oct 2016.
Figure 10. Twentieth Century surface supply channel collected runoff from open field to north of Reservoir R31. Oct 10, 2016.
Fig. 6. Supply channel created by the Masa’eid to direct the overflow from R13 to Reservoir R7. 2 Nov. 2016.
