This is a drawing showing the location of the blowing of the Silver Trumpet from the upper corner of the Temple. Notice the trimming at the top of the stones.
This is known as the Trumpeting Stone. It was discovered at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount where it had fallen from above. A part of the inscription is missing as Charles Warren sheared the stone when sinking his shaft at that corner. The other part of the inscription has never been found.
This is the actual corner stone that the Trumpeting stone set in. A plaster model of the Trumpeting stone has been set into the end of the corner stone where the original originally would have been. This corner stone was discovered in the debris at the southwestern corner of the Temple.
This is the inside view of the Corner Stone that originally was located at the top of the southwestern corner of the Temple.
On the Northeastern corner of the Moslem Platform, due to our calculations, was where the Beit haNitzotz should have been located. There are three cisterns located here. Two on the Moslem Platform. One is known be the Moslems as Bir haAfir (the Bird Cistern), bir Es- Suwaneh (Cistern of the Firerock), Off the Moslem Platform is another cistern known as Cistern #27.
These are drawings by Conrad Schick done in the 1870’s for the Palestine Exploration Fund. They show the top view and cutaway view of the layout of these cisterns.
This is a close up view of the cutaway. Notice how there is a drop in elevation. This drop in elevation is the same as the descent from the Azarah to the Ezrat Nashim (Court of the Women).
This gives another perspective on these three Cisterns.
There has been controversy as to whether the four corner chambers of the Ezrat Nashim were on the interior or exterior.
In the Tractate Negaim of the Mishnah we are told that there was a Mikvah below the Lishkat haMetzoraim. This chamber was on the northwestern corner of the Ezrat Nashim.
Another drawing of the three cisterns by Conrad Schick. In this drawing he included the steps he found within the cister. This is the Mikvah below the Lishkat haMetzorim.
Josephus described the approach from the south. There was the Soreg, followed by steps (14), then the Cheil, followed by the corner buildings.
This is the Monumental Stairway taken in 1870 by Tyritt-Drake for the Palestine Exploration Fund.
In 1868 Charles Warren discovered this tunnel. It in next to the northern wall of the Moslem Platform foundations.
Here you see the tunnel discovered by Charles Warren as well as a tunnel discovered by Charles Wilson (PEF). These tunnels are described in Middot and Tamid of the Mishnah for the disqualified priests.
This picture from Warren shows what would have been tere in the time of the Temple. The Cheil above the Tunnel. The building above is the Beit haNitzotz on the northeastern corner of the Azarah.
This map by Charles Wilson and Charles Warren (OEF) shows the location of the Beit haTevilah for the Kohanim as described in Tamid and Middot.
Having located the Cheil on the south and the Cheil on the north the Dome of the Rock was dead center between the two.
This shows the major cisterns on the Mount as well as the fosse on the northwest corner.
The two T shaped cisterns are mikvaot. It is thought that the smaller of the two was for women. Just below the smaller mikvah is a grid of conduits. Thesee are believed to be toilets. There is a separation between the conduits were the building was obviously divided into two sections. The smaller section is believed to be for women.
This is Simcha Jacobivici in a still standing building (thought to be a part of the Xystos) from the Destruction of Jerusalem.
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