Friday, November 27, 2009

The Mausoleum & The Large Cistern, Beit Shearim.

Mausoleum
Served as a stone memorial to the memory of the dead.Bold
Large Cistern
It was a burial cave in the beginning. Later became a cistern. Excavations from the area has yielded several pottery vessels, glass vessels and coins from Byzantine Period (5th-6th Cent AD). A few of them had Christian symbols.

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