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 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 16. Reservoir R19 at end of season; final cleanup to be done in 2017. 2 November 2016.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
Figure 9. Reservoir R7 after cleanout, with 20th century plaster intact. 27 October 2016.
Figure 19. Refilling the bulldozer gauges on the west edge of Reservoir R16. 29 October, 2016.
Figure 5. The energetic crew that completed the R7 excavation. 20 Oct 2017.
Figure 18. The undisturbed sediment area in Reservoir R16. 29 October, 2016.
Figure 12. Reservoir with rock and soil heaps; looking north. 11 Oct. 2016.
