Temple Mount Floor Designs Identifies 2016ns

The temple mount sifting project was established by israeli archaeologists in 2004 to examine debris dumped by islamic authorities following expansion work at an underground mosque on the compound.

Temple mount floor designs identifies 2016ns. Archeologists restore flooring that adorned the second temple of jerusalem. The finding gives a glimpse of the majestic detail of this long lost edifice central to jewish and christian history. Another biblical clue to the location of the temple is the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite. Opus sectile latin for cut work is a technique for paving floors and walls in geometric patterns or figurative scenes using meticulously cut and polished polychrome stone.

The temple mount sifting project a has recovered more than a hundred geometrically cut and polished stone tiles known as opus sectile from which we learn how jerusalem s majestic herodian temple mount was paved. Floor tiles found in holy site rubble said to be from second temple over 100 marble fragments definitively identified as part of elaborate decoration from herod s temple archaeologists say. Opus sectile latin for cut work is a technique for paving floors and walls in geometric patterns or figurative scenes using meticulously cut and polished polychrome stone. What the temple mount floor looked like as published in biblical archaeology review november december 2016 frankie snyder gabriel barkay and zachi dvira the temple mount sifting projecta has recovered more than a hundred geometrically cut and polished stone tiles known as opus sectile from which we learn how jerusalem s majestic herodian.

The concept of the temple mount gained prominence in the first century ce after the destruction of the second temple. This threshing floor is found in 2chronicles 3 1 then solomon began to build the house of yahweh at jerusalem in mount moriah where yahweh appeared unto david his father in the place that david had prepared in the threshingfloor of ornan the jebusite. The temple mount sifting project a has recovered more than a hundred geometrically cut and polished stone tiles known as opus sectile from which we learn how jerusalem s majesticherodian temple mount was paved. The temple mount is the trapezoid shaped walled in area in the southeastern corner of the old city of jerusalem the four walls surrounding it date back at least in their lower parts to the time of the second jewish temple built at the end of first century b c e these huge supporting walls partly buried underground were built around the summit of the eastern hill identified as mount.