Stepped street (Jerusalem)

The stepped street, as it is known from academic works,[1] or the Jerusalem pilgrim road as it has been dubbed by the Ir David Foundation,[2] is the early Roman period street connecting the Temple Mount from its southwestern corner, to Jerusalem's southern gates of the time via the Pool of Siloam.

The street ascended from Jerusalem's southern gates,[1] along the ancient City of David, today part of the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, into what is now the Old City and passed by the Western Wall[3] after passing underneath the Herodian bridge now known as Robinson's Arch.

[1] Sections of the ancient street were first discovered by Charles Warren in 1884,[1] followed by Frederick J. Bliss and Archibald C. Dickey of the Palestine Exploration Fund between 1894 and 1897.

[3] The Israel Antiquities Authority work on the street used horizontal excavation, a problematic approach as it lacks context for events before and after the layer being investigated, in this case dating from the 1st century.

in the celebration called Simchat Beit HaShoeivah, water was carried up from the Pool of Siloam to the Temple.