Essen Gate
Essen Gate is a gate named by Flavius Josephus in the 4th chapter of the fifth book of the Bellum Judaicum in the south of the then city wall of Jerusalem .
In 1894, the two researchers Frederick J. Bliss and AC Dickie discovered during excavations on the southern slope of Mount Zion, not far from the Protestant cemetery , the remains of a tower, wall remains and four thresholds of a gate lying one above the other. The excavation was not followed up and fell into disuse. It was not until 1977 that the Benedictine Father Bargil Pixner from the Dormition Abbey was able to locate the Essen Gate during an excavation. Later excavations showed that the gate dates from Herodian times.
The excavation site was uncovered again in 2015 by the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies of the Holy Land .
literature
- Bargil Pixner. Ways of the Messiah and places of the early Church . 1991.
- Bargil Pixner: Jerusalem's Essene Gateway : Biblical Archeology Review: 23:03, May / Jun 1997
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bellum Judaicum V 145
- ^ DEI - excavation on Mount Zion
Coordinates: 31 ° 46 ′ 13.4 " N , 35 ° 13 ′ 42.2" E