3669 x 2416 px | 31,1 x 20,5 cm | 12,2 x 8,1 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
19. März 2015
Ort:
Gihon spring,Jerusalem, Palestine, Israel, 1946
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From the Album First leave in Palatine and Jerusalem, 18th September to 6th October 1946.This album is a sight seeing trip off the religious sites of Jerusalem. The Gihon Spring (Hebrew: מעיין הגיחון) or Fountain of the Virgin[1] in the Kidron Valley was the main source of water for the Pool of Siloam in the City of David, the original site of Jerusalem. One of the world's major intermittent springs—and a reliable water source that made human settlement possible in ancient Jerusalem—the spring was not only used for drinking water, but also initially for irrigation of gardens in the adjacent Kidron Valley which provided a food source for the ancient settlement. The spring rises in a cave 20 feet by 7.[2] Being intermittent, it required the excavation of the Pool of Siloam which stored the large amount of water needed for the town when the spring was not flowing. The spring has the singular characteristic of being intermittent, flowing from three to five times daily in winter, twice daily in summer, and only once daily in autumn. This peculiarity is accounted for by the supposition that the outlet from the reservoir is by a passage in the form of a siphon.[2] The spring is under the control of the Israeli settler organization Ir David Foundation ("El'ad");[3] it is sometimes used by Jewish men as a sort of mikvah.[4]
