. Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932. Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history. Ancient Pool at El-Jib & Archaeologist Pritchard * Drawers of water and drinkers of wine. m j^ International ''The city and the well wcrc^ lost to istory until this summer, when—after two seasons of excavation at a site called El-Jib a fcw miles north of Jerusalem— the pool of Gibeon began to flow again. Its discoverer: Archaeologist James B. Pritchard, who in 1951 found the palace öf Herod at Jericho. Pottery at a Premium. Searching three years
. Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932. Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history. Ancient Pool at El-Jib & Archaeologist Pritchard * Drawers of water and drinkers of wine. m j^ International ''The city and the well wcrc^ lost to istory until this summer, when—after two seasons of excavation at a site called El-Jib a fcw miles north of Jerusalem— the pool of Gibeon began to flow again. Its discoverer: Archaeologist James B. Pritchard, who in 1951 found the palace öf Herod at Jericho. Pottery at a Premium. Searching three years ago for Gibeon, Dr. Pritchard sur- veyed 39 sites, picked El-Jib partly be- cause its name, transliterated from He- brew to Arabic, might well be a blurred rendering of Gibeon. Last year Pritchard began to dig (his expedition was financed by the University of Pennsylvania Mu- seum and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, where he teaches Biblical Hebrew). Four feet below the surface at El-Jib Pritchard found the walls of houses, then evidence of a wall sur- rounding the town, and finally the rim of a pool 37 ft. across. Concentrating on the pool, Pritchard made such exciting finds of pottery that this year he began to pay premium rates to 100 native diggers, set them to work tw<f shifts a day hauling out debris in baskets made of old auto tires. In short order they had dug past the well's ürst stage—a broad shaft cut out of limestone Si ft. deep, faced with a spiral staircase. Then the diggers excavated a narrower tunnel with steps cut in its side to reach a broad water-drawing room 82 ft. below the surface. Wood, Water & Wine. Even more im- portant than this elaborately planned wa- ter System (which must have been a labor of years for slaves working with primitive bronze tools) was the rubble hauled out of the well. Among the finds: pottery painted in red and yellow with designs of birds, which may force revision of the theory held by many arc
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