Figure 2. Reservoir R7 in courtyard of House 52 before work began. 10 Oct 2016.
Figure 9. Reservoir R7 after cleanout, with 20th century plaster intact. 27 October 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 11. Reservoir R19 with soil heaps; looking to southwest. 11 Oct 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 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 25. Team 2. The Group mostly responsible for clearing the deep stone layer from Quarry-Reservoir R19. 2 November, 2016.
