Stepped Stone Structure

Stepped Stone Structure

The Stepped Stone Structure is the name given to the remains at a particular archaeological site (sometimes termed Area G) on the eastern side of the City of David, the oldest part of Jerusalem. The curved, 60ft high, narrow stone structure is built over a series of terraces (hence the name). A casemate wall adjoins the structure from a northerly direction at the upper levels, and may have been the original city wall.

It was uncovered during a series of excavations by R.A.S. Macalister in the 1920s, Kathleen Kenyon in the 1960s, and Yigal Shiloh in the 1970s-80s. Kathleen Kenyon dated the structure to the start of Iron Age II (1000-900 BC); Macalister believed it to be Jebusite. Macalister, the first to excavate the structure, called the remains he had found a "ramp"; other scholars, after the more recent discoveries by Kenyon and Shiloh, have suggested that it might be a retaining wall, or a fortress. Israel Finkelstein "et al" suggest that the upper part of the structure was substantially rebuilt in the Hasmonean period. Israel Finkelstein, Ze'ev Herzog, Lily Singer-Avitz and David Ussishkin (2007), [http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/info/TA34-2_King_David.pdf Has King David's Palace in Jerusalem Been Found?] , "Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University", 34(2), 142-164; p. 154]

It is hypothesized that the structure may be the Biblical Millo. A recent excavation by Eilat Mazar directly above the Stepped Stone Structure suggests it was connected to and perhaps built in support of the Large Stone Structure, which Mazar claims to identify as King David's palace.

ee also

*Large Stone Structure
*Millo
*City of David

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