Figure 13. Removal of twentieth century reservoir cleanout. 12 Oct. 2016.
Fig. 6. Supply channel created by the Masa’eid to direct the overflow from R13 to Reservoir R7. 2 Nov. 2016.
Figure 1. Map of reservoirs in the middle of Byzantine Umm el-Jimal.
Figure 12. Reservoir with rock and soil heaps; looking north. 11 Oct. 2016.
Figure 7. Reservoir R31 just after the cleanout began, 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 16. Reservoir R19 at end of season; final cleanup to be done in 2017. 2 November 2016.
Figure 11. Reservoir R19 with soil heaps; looking to southwest. 11 Oct 2016.
