AIAS Reich Early Roman Jerusalem 2023

The lecture starts at 6.30 minutes, and is followed by a Q&A session.
The lecture explores Jerusalem of the late Second Temple period, which can be seen as the Temple City. The Jewish faith permitted the existence of a single temple, and pilgrimage to that single place of worship became a phenomenon which characterized the city.
This lecture investigates the archaeological remains that demonstrate the peculiar nature of this Jewish temple-city
These include ritual baths, an abundance of chalk vessels, absense of pork bones in contemporary waste, decline in the importation of wine from the Aegean, open water pools to supply water to pilgrims, a concentration of intact cooking pots at the city's perimeter, and the peculiar burial practices known as liqut and pinui (clearing of burials for city development).
Most of these features clearly relate to the Jewish religious rules (halakha) and are absent in non-Jewish settlements in the country.