Columbaria in the City of David

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The base of a <i>columbarium</i> tower uncovered in the City of David, once believed to be the Tower of Siloam. Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Excavations_on_Ophel,_foundations_of_a_tower,_Jerusalem_LOC_matpc.10580.tif" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.Base of the <i>columbarium</i> discovered int 1914 in the vicinity of the Siloam Pool. Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Excavations_on_Ophel_(Jerusalem)._Foundations_of_a_tower_LOC_matpc.05089.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.Weill's dumps in the location of the tower he discovered near the Siloam pool after his excavations in Jerusalem and before 1935. Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Excavations_on_Ophel._Site_of_the_excavations_LOC_matpc.05082.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.Photo of Weill's tower (marked H) published in Louis-Hugues Vincent, “LA CITÉ DE DAVID D'APRÈS LES FOUILLES DE 1913-1914 [Fin],” <i>Revue Biblique</i>, 30.4 (1921): 541-569 (photo in plate xiii opposite p. 554). Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weill%27s_Siloam_Tower.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.Diagram of Weill's tower published in Louis-Hugues Vincent, “LA CITÉ DE DAVID D'APRÈS LES FOUILLES DE 1913-1914 [Fin],” <i>Revue Biblique</i>, 30.4 (1921): 541-569 (diagram on p. 522). Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_of_Weill%27s_Siloam_Tower.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.Photograph of the location of Weill's tower published by Gustaf Dalman in his <a href="https://archive.org/details/palstinajahrbu1915dalm/page/76/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox"><i>Palästinajahrbuch des Deutschen evangelischen instituts für altertumswissenschaft des Heiligen Landes zu Jerusalem</i></a> (Berlin: E. S. Mittler & sohn, 1915), plate 5 (opposite p. 76).Present-day photograph of Weill's tower, courtesy of BiblePlaces.com.A second <i>columbarium</i> near the Siloam Pool. Photographed by Joshua N. Tilton.

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