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Spring
Built dam

Clay pipe

Shaft 3 Built dam

Shaft 2 Tunnel Bath house

Built pilaster Entrance Additional
Shaft 1 to tunnel channel

Manhole Aqueduct Pool

Early pool

Columbarium tower 1 10 m

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Fig. 185 cEn Zur Spring (coord. 14560.21740; 75 m a.s.l.): This is a hewn tunnel with an
ᶜEn Zur: the spring, a tunnel with external channel covered by stone blocks set diagonally like a gable, which carries
shafts, a masonry aqueduct, a water to an irrigation pool (Fig. 185). From there another channel led to a private
pool, and a bathhouse (in a level bathhouse that was part of a Herodian estate. Farther on surplus water reached
lower than the pool). The round the Caesarea aqueduct near the Shuni springs. The complex is located within the
columbarium was built on ground Ramat Hanadiv Nature Park. From the parking lot of Ramat Hanadiv a marked
level above the tunnel path takes one down to the cEn Zur spring. It can also be reached up a path coming
from behind the ORT School.

The Arches Aqueduct at the Entrance to Beth H. anania Village: To the west of
the entrance gate to the village, one may see a pair of aqueducts resting on two
sets of arches. At about 50 m down the descending path, on their northern side,
a Latin inscription in a tablet with dovetail handles (tabula ansata) is depicted.
Next to it there is another inscription, incised on a shield surrounded by a garland
raised above the head of a winged goddess (Nike), with a vulture above the shield
(Fig. 186). This section of the aqueducts passed across the southern fringes of Nah. al
Tanninim Lake (see below), which caused the weakening of the aqueducts. Three
terracotta pipes, therefore, were laid in channel B (Fig. 187), while branching
from channel A westward was channel D, which bypassed the lake on the south.
The point of the split is easily seen in the field. Thick layers of travertine on both
sides of the aqueducts are indicative of the great amounts of water that flowed
and poured over the sides of the channels for a lengthy period, indicating poor