Английская Википедия:Hezekiah's Pool

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The pool in March 2010

Шаблон:Coord Hezekiah's Pool (Шаблон:Lang-he, Brikhat Hizkiyahu), or the Patriarch's Pool, located in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, was once a reservoir forming part of the city's ancient water system.

History

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Hezekiah's Pool (1862); in the background is the double-domed Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Flavius Josephus referred to the pool as Amygdalon, meaning 'almond tree' in Greek, but it is very likely that he derived the name phonetically from the Hebrew word Шаблон:Script/Hebrew migdal, meaning 'tower', thus it is believed that the original name was Pool of the Tower or Towers.Шаблон:Citation needed The pool is also known as the Pool of Pillars, or the Pool of the Patriarch's Bath (Arabic: Шаблон:Lang Birkat Hammam el-Batrak).

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"Patriarch's Pool" in 1907

The pool is believed to be the upper pool referred to in the Books of Kings (Шаблон:Bibleverse), built by King Hezekiah Шаблон:Nowrap,[1] who met messengers from the king of Assyria there. At a later time it was fed from the Mamilla Pool, one of the three reservoirs constructed by Herod the Great during the first century BCE[2] by an underground conduit which still partially exists.[3]

The pool is Шаблон:Convert by Шаблон:Convert in size, with an estimated capacity of nearly Шаблон:Convert. The bottom of the pool is cemented and leveled natural rock.[3] Шаблон:Asof the pool is dry and surrounded by buildings on all sides.Шаблон:Citation needed

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  1. Шаблон:Cite book
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  3. 3,0 3,1 The Land of Israel; A Text-Book on the Physical and Historical Geography of the Holy Land Embodying the Results of Recent Research, Robert Laird Stewart, 2008. Page 178