July 4, 2007
I Can Feel My Body… And It Hurts…
0Independence Day passed with little notice here at Sussita. Another beautiful day here as I sit on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and try to ignore the pain in my lower back. The Squares. E8: Not much to tell except many boulders moved and still no street. Those guys sure worked hard, and they worked on filling up their hole and leveling their square. Robert The Impaler was a complete stud today with the pick, they don't ordain them like they used to apparently. A5: This square has walls coming out the wazoo. Today they worked at cleaning the walls and digging deeper in the two northern quadrants.
F2: These folks removed the walkway around the church and found a column (which was a beast to move let me tell you). They also found what appears to be a femur of a cow.
Pottery washing today was quick, thanks God, and everyones doing ok here. tomorrow we pack up to go to Jerusalem where Bob will be leaving us and we will be getting some more folks.
Thats all I got for today, and to quote a childhood hero of mine, sssooo long, folks!
kevin
July 5, 2007
Street = Happiness
0by Dr. Mark Schuler • 2007, Uncategorized
The last day of the first week was a success all of the squares did very well this week in finding what they were wanting to find. The A5 square found what they believe is part of a street and a couple of walls that are of different time periods. The F2 square who had knocked out a barrier the day before continued their work in slowly exposing the surroundings of their initial square. The E8 team had a huge success today because the street was found today or at least a portion of it. Dr. Schuler had our team dance in the street because we had found it.
The street (Cardo 2N) is missing some pieces and the wall on the one side seems to have suffered major damage. The fact that we found the street is a huge success for our team. The other teams found walls which they think are of different time periods.
Who knows how much of the street (cardo 2N) is actually still there or if the walls that were found in A5 hold a lot of meaning but the one thing we can be sure of is our great success in the first week of digging. The Galilee region has been amazing thus far.