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Pool of Siloam (ивр. בריכת השילוח‎) (Breikhat Hashiloah) is a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David, the original site of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast. The pool was fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, carried there by two aqueducts.

Содержание 1 History 2 The lower pool 3 See also 4 Источники 5 Примечания

History

The Pool of Siloam is mentioned several times in the Bible. Isaiah Шаблон:Bibleverse-nb mentions the pool's waters, while Шаблон:Bibleverse ff. references the construction of Hezekiah's tunnel. For Christians, the pool has additional significance as it is mentioned in the Gospel of John, as the location to which Jesus sent a man who had been blind from birth, as part of the act of healing him.^[1]

A substantial remodeling of a nearby pool, thought to be the Siloam Pool, was constructed in the 5th century, under Byzantine direction, and is said to have been built at the behest of the Empress Aelia Eudocia. This pool, having been somewhat abandoned and left to ruin, partly survives to the present day; surrounded by a high wall of stones on all sides (except for an arched entrance to Hezekiah's tunnel – which was only rediscovered in the 19th century).

The lower pool

Ancient records report that during the Second Temple period, there was a lower pool. In the Autumn of 2004, Ir David Foundation workers, excavating for a sewer near the present-day pool, uncovered stone steps, and Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron (prominent archaeologists) were called in; it became obvious to them that these steps were likely to have been part of the Second Temple period pool. Excavations commenced and confirmed the initial supposition; the find was formally announced on August 9, 2005 and received substantial international media attention.^[2][3] The pool is less than 70 yards from the edge of the Byzantine reconstruction of a pool previously thought to be the Siloam Pool. This small pool collected some of the water as it emptied there at the southern end of Hezekiah's tunnel. The water continued on through a channel into the recently discovered Pool of Siloam. The source of the water is from the Gihon Spring located at the northern end of Hezekiah's tunnel on the eastern side of the City of David. An ancient pool (Upper Pool) existed near the Gihon Spring but was no longer used after King Hezekiah redirected the waters to the western side of the city.^[4]

The lower pool is not perfectly rectangular, but a soft trapezoid. There are three sets of five steps, two leading to a platform, before the bottom is reached, and it has been suggested that the steps were designed to accommodate various water levels. The pool is stone lined, but underneath there is evidence of an earlier version which was merely plastered (to help it retain water). Coins found within this plaster date from the time of Alexander Jannaeus (104—76 BC), while a separate collection of coins, dating from the time of the Great Revolt (AD 66—70), were also found.

How much of the pool and its surrounding structures were a result of monumental construction by Herod the Great is not yet understood (as of September 2006); nor is the relationship of this pool to the earlier one (i.e., why it was built when the earlier pool already existed). A portion of this pool remains unexcavated, as the land above it is owned by a nearby Greek Orthodox church and is occupied by an orchard known as the King's Garden (compare Шаблон:Bibleverse).

As a fresh water reservoir, it would have been a major gathering place for ancient Jews making religious pilgrimages to the city. The Gospel of John suggests that it was probably used as a mikvah (ritual bath),^[5] although mikvahs are usually much smaller in size; if the pool were a mikvah, it would be the largest ever found, by a substantial margin.^[6] It is thought that the current structure was originally the Shrine of the Four Nymphs (Tetranymphon), a nymphaeum built by Hadrian during the construction of Aelia Capitolina in 135,^[7][8][9] and mentioned in Byzantine works such as the 7th century Chronicon Paschale; other nymphaeum built by Hadrian, such as that at Sagalassos, are very similar.^[10]

See also

• Tower of Siloam

Источники

• [Статья "Pool of Siloam" в английском разделе Википедии]
• Image and text of the Siloam inscription
• Hershel Shanks, "The Siloam Pool Where Jesus Cured the Blind Man", Biblical Archaeology Review:31:5 (September-October 2005), pp. 16-23. Click here for an abridged article in html or the full article in pdf format
• Pictures of the recently rediscovered Pool of Siloam from holylandphotos.org
• The Drudge Report's article from the day the news was formally released can be found in the Drudge Report Archives here

Примечания

Координаты: 31°46′14″ с. ш. 35°14′06″ в. д. / 31.770556° с. ш. 35.235° в. д. ^(G) (O)31.770556, 35.235