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

610 EXPLORATIONS IN BIBLE LANDS
English Exploration Fund, after a successful examination of
but a small portion of the whole area of this interesting ruin,
abandoned Tell ej-Judaida again, without having been able
to identify the name of the ancient town which occupied
this
place at the time of the Hebrew kings.
Short as the excavations at Sandahanna (so-called from
Plan of the Excavated Upper Town of Tell Sandahanna
the neighboring ruined church of St. Anne) were, they have
furnished a complete picture of the appearance of a Jewish
town of the Seleucidan times, with its gates, streets, open
places and houses. It also became evident, from a clearing
of an area of fifty feet by thirty feet carried down to the