The excavation by this author of the area of the Pool of Siloam near the southern part of the City of David hill revealed once again the terminus of Jerusalem’s main street in Second Temple times, which stretched along the Tyropoeon Valley ( Shukron and Reich The first to discover parts of this street were C . Warren ( 1867 ) , near the Temple . ) 2011 Mount, and F . G . Bliss and A . Dickie ( 1898 ) , west of the City of David . We reached the street, of which we had known from the literature, at its southernmost end where it joins a paved plaza north of the Pool of Siloam . Here we excavated two short segments : an eastern segment, which had not been known from previous excavations Reich 2011 : 128 – 129 ) and a western segment, which Bliss and Dickie had found ( Reich ( . ) 126 : 2011 After we were unable to unearth more of the western part of the street to the north, it was decided to uncover a portion of the street also familiar from the Bliss and Dickie excavations, some 200 m up...
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