Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht

DURING 19TB CENTURY: PALESTINE 003
the west from the place of the later Hippicus, the present
David's Tower, at the citadel near the Jaffa Gate. While
Bishop Gobat's school was being built on the
southwestern
part of the west ridge, remains of a wall were found, which
Tobler correctly assigned to the oldest wall. A little to the
south of this, Maudslay, in 1 874, found the artificially cut off
scarp of rock which here supported the wall.
In making his
The so-called Tower of David
excavations in the southeast of the Haram area on the socalled
hill of Ophel, Warren likewise found a considerable
portion of the wall.
Farther south from the latter, also on
the east side of the eastern hill, Guthe discovered various
portions of it. But most important of all is the fact that the
latest excavations of the English Palestine Exploration Fund
under the direction of Bliss, in the year 1897, restored the
connection between these points in the southwest corner
as well as the southeast.