The Antoneion 🌁was LONGER and WIDER, (and WHITER according to Josephus, being of "gleaming white stone, like the 🏛️); situated on an escarpment HIGHER than the rest of the Zion Plateau and having a CAVE entrance tunnel in its butte foundation of the NE tower (where the model locates the large arched city wall entrance at the corner next to the fortress) with steps leading up to it. There was a forecourt in front of it that served as the NE cloister of the 🏦courts. It was WALLED in and is the area designated in the "John Gospel" as the "Lithostratos" or "Pavement", but the fortress was EXPOSED on its western and northern sides UNTIL the northern section of the city called "Bethzetha" by Josephus was walled in during the reign of the LAST King of the Jews, Herod Agrippa I in the 40's AC. There was a gateway in the NE corner of the cloister that dated back to the early Judean monarchy, when the prophet Jeremiah referred to the "women who mourned for Adonis in the northern gate". The "Pool of Bethesda" was NOT doubled; it was NOT a "pool" but a CISTERN; and it was NOT colonnaded with porticoes around it. Those are FICTIONS of the "John Gospel". Old aerial photographs from the 1930's show it to have been situated OUTSIDE the "Sheepgate" and what made it "five-sided" was that the corner of it nearest the Gate was angled or slanted. It has since been COMPLETELY FILLED IN and there is now NO trace of it. Great historical preservation for a city that SUPPOSEDLY prides itself in its ancient heritage! Christian pilgrims are being shown the WRONG area as the "Pool of Bethesda", which COULDN'T have been the site of the "gospel miracle" as described anyway since it WASN'T a "pool" and so was too steep to be entered and DIDN'T have stairs. The ONLY way to see it now is to find the old photographs of it. The CISTERN called the "Pool of Israel" DID exist in the NE cloister just next to the main 🏦court portico, UNTIL the 1920's or '30's, when the Arabs FILLED IT IN as they PAVED OVER the cloister area to turn the "PLace of the PAVEMENT" into a PARKING LOT!! 😆 NOTICE also that the northern wall extends TOO FAR NORTH, PAST where the Damascus Gate would be situated and OVER the northern hillock indicated by the Tertullianic "Lukan Gospel" as being "Golgotha". The large grotto cavern next to it is OMITTED in the model, BUT as SHOWN, the "Place of the 💀" resembled a "BOUCRANION", or (hornless) 🐂skull; though with just the slight resemblance of human 💀facial features. However, the model CONTRADICTS the "New Testament" descriptions of the Crucifixion that Jesus was crucified "OUTSIDE the GATE" and therefore OUTSIDE the city walls. WHERE IS the northern Damascus Gate??! Don't know WHAT the four-tiered tower structure in the background is as Josephus describes NO such thing in his history. And the three "beautiful towers" he DOES describe were NOT situated at the Jaffa Gate and SUPPOSED site of King Herod "the Great's" palace estate as the model shows AND in a 📐pattern, but at each corner of the STILL EXISTING cistern THEN-called the "MYGDALON Pool", or "Pool of the TOWERS". The towers are LONG GONE but the cistern remains and has since "modern times" been called the "Pool of Hezekiah". Josephus claimed the three towers each had a personal name of Herod's favorite people: "Phasael" his brother, "Hippicus" his best friend, and "MARIAMNA" his "beloved" wife. GET IT??!! The "MARIAmna MYGDALA"!! 😁 The Herodian palace estate was actually on the SOUTHERN butte of the Western Hill, where the present church and abbey of the "dormition" now stands (which would be BEYOND the model of the palace, to the far left), past the "Gothic" style 🏦compound basilica (which in reality would have been MUCH LOWER and WIDER, in the GRECO-ROMAN style, instead of looking like a Roman aquaduct). The model also OMITS the older Hasmonaean palace which would have been situated JUST ACROSS the central valley from the 🏦compound on the eastern slope of the Western Hill. Its ruins are NOW FINALLY being EXPOSED by Israeli archaeologists, creating an INCONGRUOUS scene (to say the least) with the smoothly MODERN paved plaza of the "Wailing Wall" city center. OH MY GOD, they REALLY BOTCHED it!! The Ophel penisula ridge of Mount Zion was NOT walled!! The Herodian era wall went ACROSS the Ridge jutting out diagonally from the SE corner of the 🏦 Mount 🧱 and running west some distance in front of the 🏦Mount steps to the 💩 Gate (also called the "Valley Gate" and the "Zion Gate") in the central valley (NW of the Pool of Siloam), and along the southern slope of the Western Plateau and AROUND the Herodian palace estate situated on the southern butte of the plateau to join with the much OLDER Hezekhian 🧱 at it's SW corner. It DID NOT CROSS south through the Gehinnom Valley. They are trying to make the ancient city look MORE extensive than it WAS! And WHERE is the Pool of Siloam with its TOWERS and WIDE surrounding stairs?? They made this model TOO SOON because Israeili archaeologists are NOW FINALLY EXCAVATING the FULL extent of it!! The circus/hippodrome WAS NOT situated in the UNwalled area of the Central Valley opening into the city!! It was situated in the Wadi Abu Tor to the WEST of the city OUTSIDE the walls and BEYOND the Gehinnom Valley!! It was also ANNEXED to the THEATER and DID NOT have a rounded end since it was also used as a Greek-style 🦶as well as 🐎 racing stadium. An amphitheater for gladiator "games" was situated in the same wadi next to a ridge separating it from the other structure. The Herodian palace SHOULD NOT be on the WESTERN side of the city against the far wall but on the southern butte of the Western Plateau to the far left!! And it DIDN'T have three ornate towers at it. The three beautiful MIGDALIM, along with a fourth, would have been at each corner of the AMIGDALON Pool which was a large rectangular cistern that STILL exists and was built during King Hezekiah's reign where the ancient kosher "McDonald's" is shown in the model! There should also be a bunch of stepped mikvahs in front of the 🏦complex steps on the Ridge!! And the pavement slabs of the 🏛️ courts were NOT large, square, white stones laid straight like the linoleum floor of a modern kitchen or bathroom but RECTANGULAR GOLDEN ones laid at an ANGLE to the walls. The 🏦 itself looked like this 🏛️, the CLASSIC Greco-Roman COLUMNED type on a podium and with 🏠roof. It did NOT resemble the Moslem🕋!! Otherwise, WHERE is the "PINNACLE" or Apex of its 🏠 that Jesus was supposedly set up on by Satan to tempt him to throw himself down from?? And the ALTAR and BATH were in FRONT of the 🏦, facing the entrance, NOT to the SIDE of it!! The MEANING of the incident cited in the "Gospel" story is that IF Jesus HAD thrown himself down from the 🏠 of the 🏦 he would have LANDED ON the ALTAR of SACRIFICE!! 🤔 BUT............. as a SACRIFICIAL VICTIM TO SATAN!!!!😮🥵 THANK GOD Jesus didn't commit SUICIDE when the 👹👺 prompted him to!! And YOU SEE??!! The videogapher KNOWS that the host's claim that the SE corner city wall tower being the "Pinnacle of the 🏛️" is WRONG because the host ISN'T SHOWN pointing it out when he's talking about it!! It DOESN'T make sense! It could be called the "Pinnacle of the 🧱; BUT NOT the "PINNACLE/APEX of the 🏛️" itself!! LOUD and CLEAR: the PINNACLE of the 🏛️ was the HIGHT POINT or APEX of the PEDIMENT ARCH of its 🏠!!!! 🧐😳😁 And the 🏛️ Court gate DID NOT have an arc staircase leading up to it NOR pillars separating it from the Court of the Israelites but a 🧱 so outsiders COULDN'T see the ritual sacrifices being conducted; which were ORDAINED to be HIDDEN from NON-priestly 👀!! And WHERE is the OUTER "Court of the Women"?? This is ALL WRONG! The "Chamber of Hewn Stone" was WITHIN the "Court of the Israelites", NOT in the Basilica Stoa!! And the Judish priest-historian Josephus described the 🏛️ as being situated MORE to the NORTH and thus CLOSER to the 🕍 so that there was MORE open space to the SOUTH of it, where the TWO OTHER courts (of the Jewish men and the women) would be situated. It WAS NOT sited in the CENTER of the compound but DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM the eastern "Royal Gate" which is NEARER the Sheepgate in the line of the eastern wall, and the courts DID NOT progress from East to West but FROM SOUTH to NORTH!! Josephus mentions that ONLY the EAST-facing FRONT side or FACADE of the 🏛️ was 🪙plated; probably to reflect the rays of the 🌅! Thus, the 🏛️, LIKE the "S🌞N of G☀d", apparently had a SOLAR SIGNificance. THIS WOULD explain the CURIOUS "detail" of the huge "Zion 🪨" in the CENTER of the Temple Mount platform. Since the 🏦, UNlike the present mosque, WAS NOT situated over it, it was left EXPOSED. BUT, it was NOT paved over with the slabstones! The present LATERAL ⛺ shape of the 🪨was CARVED by the Herodian stonemasons to RESEMBLE a NAVEL, like the "OMPHALOS" at the famous Greek prophecy center of the ☀god Apollo's 🏛️ at Delphi!! So the otherwise UNexplained ledge on its straight edge was CUT BY THEM to FIT the platform PAVEMENT SLABS ON, with the other slabs laid as closely as possible around the curved sides to highlight the ⛺ shape "embedded in" the courts platform. THUS, Herod was SLYLY implying that his royal capital city of JERUSALEM, and NOT Delphi (OR Rome!), was the "center or NAVEL of the World" in the "Holy Land" of ISRAEL at the confluence of the two great land masses on THAT side of the 🌍: Eurasia and Africa!! The model shows THE TEMPLE the modern Israeli Jews WANT to build, NOT WHAT WAS!!😮 BUT, the model has one element correct: the SE tower of the Antoneion WAS the TALLEST of the four according to Josephus' description of the castellum.
The 🏦 WAS NOT the Kaaba Alla!! It was "Classical" Greco-Roman style! We KNOW this because there is an ancient sculpture of it from that time on the lintel ruins of the synagogue at CAPHARNUM represented as the Ark of the Covenant; which is WHERE the Christian "Gospel" authors got the idea of the Levitical 🏛️ being the "Old Covenant" and the Body of Christ being the "New Covenant"!! 😮 And there are ADDITIONAL clues. Josephus described the 🏛️ and its surrounding buildings as appearing like a 🏔️ of ❄️ gleaming in the ☀️ shine. And the "Gospel" account of the 👹 setting Jesus up on the "PINNACLE" or APEX of the 🏛️ indicates it had an 🏠roof.
The INNER courts of the 🏦 (the Court of the Women, the Court of the Israelites, and the Court of the Priests where the slaughter sacrifices were conducted) would HAVE to have been arranged vertically/lengthwise from SOUTH to NORTH because the horizontal width of the complex was too small to accommodate them from West to East!! A COMMON architectural misconception about the structure.
THIS detail about the ⛺️ of the 🪨 means SEVERAL things: first, it would have taken a great amount of the soil and rock cut away from the western slope of the Zion plateau in creating the sheer vertical side for a 🧱 to cover the area of the 🏦courts around the 🪨 and OVERLAY THAT high enough with the slabstones so that the 🪨 didn't jut up enough to be an UNtransable obstruction; it would also mean that the one INDENTED corner of it was CUT LATER BY MOSLEM masons, thereby IMbalancing the outline of the ⛺ shape️, to create the entrance to the cavern beneath the 🪨that THEY ALSO carved out as a "prayer place" when they built their mosque! Originally, there WASN'T a cavern under it with SMOOTHLY polished walls; which is WHY such an UNusual place is NOT mentioned in the "Old Testament" accounts of the Judish 🏦! It had NO significance because it DIDN'T exist then, and the Jews apparently had NO reason to carve one out! The "significance" of it for the Moslems is their claim that THIS was where the prophet Mohammed landed to pray on his "lightening steed" Baraka's "night flight" from Mecca or Medina to Jerusalem. Some have accounted for it being there originally when the Jewish temples existed, as a 🦴 repository of the slaughtered sacrificial animals. BUT the Levitical Law would have PROHIBITED the keeping of ANY bodily remains "entombed" on the 🏛️ premises as being "UNCLEAN" and the feature is NOT mentioned in the Mishna and the Talmud accounts of the 🏦. Therefore, it MUST date from MOSLEM times.
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Why is the temple in the Roman fort?
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18:59 Traditional Golgotha...
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research Ron Wyatt, he found out it is in fact the real Golgotha. On YT "The ARK and the BLOOD The Discovery of the Ark of the Covenant"
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Thank you for your presentation. Could you please tell me where this model is located?
This was at The Holy Land Experience located in Orlando, Florida, USA, unfortunately the theme park was closed in 2020.
Long ago set into rhyme.
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i saw a giant , just go walking past the damascus gate...................just kidding
This ISN'T the Holyland Hotel model spanning the outside courtyard! Rather "Gothic" looking in conception than "Classical" Greco-Roman.
The Antoneion 🌁was LONGER and WIDER, (and WHITER according to Josephus, being of "gleaming white stone, like the 🏛️); situated on an escarpment HIGHER than the rest of the Zion Plateau and having a CAVE entrance tunnel in its butte foundation of the NE tower (where the model locates the large arched city wall entrance at the corner next to the fortress) with steps leading up to it. There was a forecourt in front of it that served as the NE cloister of the 🏦courts. It was WALLED in and is the area designated in the "John Gospel" as the "Lithostratos" or "Pavement", but the fortress was EXPOSED on its western and northern sides UNTIL the northern section of the city called "Bethzetha" by Josephus was walled in during the reign of the LAST King of the Jews, Herod Agrippa I in the 40's AC. There was a gateway in the NE corner of the cloister that dated back to the early Judean monarchy, when the prophet Jeremiah referred to the "women who mourned for Adonis in the northern gate". The "Pool of Bethesda" was NOT doubled; it was NOT a "pool" but a CISTERN; and it was NOT colonnaded with porticoes around it. Those are FICTIONS of the "John Gospel". Old aerial photographs from the 1930's show it to have been situated OUTSIDE the "Sheepgate" and what made it "five-sided" was that the corner of it nearest the Gate was angled or slanted. It has since been COMPLETELY FILLED IN and there is now NO trace of it. Great historical preservation for a city that SUPPOSEDLY prides itself in its ancient heritage! Christian pilgrims are being shown the WRONG area as the "Pool of Bethesda", which COULDN'T have been the site of the "gospel miracle" as described anyway since it WASN'T a "pool" and so was too steep to be entered and DIDN'T have stairs. The ONLY way to see it now is to find the old photographs of it. The CISTERN called the "Pool of Israel" DID exist in the NE cloister just next to the main 🏦court portico, UNTIL the 1920's or '30's, when the Arabs FILLED IT IN as they PAVED OVER the cloister area to turn the "PLace of the PAVEMENT" into a PARKING LOT!! 😆
NOTICE also that the northern wall extends TOO FAR NORTH, PAST where the Damascus Gate would be situated and OVER the northern hillock indicated by the Tertullianic "Lukan Gospel" as being "Golgotha". The large grotto cavern next to it is OMITTED in the model, BUT as SHOWN, the "Place of the 💀" resembled a "BOUCRANION", or (hornless) 🐂skull; though with just the slight resemblance of human 💀facial features. However, the model CONTRADICTS the "New Testament" descriptions of the Crucifixion that Jesus was crucified "OUTSIDE the GATE" and therefore OUTSIDE the city walls. WHERE IS the northern Damascus Gate??!
Don't know WHAT the four-tiered tower structure in the background is as Josephus describes NO such thing in his history. And the three "beautiful towers" he DOES describe were NOT situated at the Jaffa Gate and SUPPOSED site of King Herod "the Great's" palace estate as the model shows AND in a 📐pattern, but at each corner of the STILL EXISTING cistern THEN-called the "MYGDALON Pool", or "Pool of the TOWERS". The towers are LONG GONE but the cistern remains and has since "modern times" been called the "Pool of Hezekiah". Josephus claimed the three towers each had a personal name of Herod's favorite people: "Phasael" his brother, "Hippicus" his best friend, and "MARIAMNA" his "beloved" wife. GET IT??!! The "MARIAmna MYGDALA"!! 😁
The Herodian palace estate was actually on the SOUTHERN butte of the Western Hill, where the present church and abbey of the "dormition" now stands (which would be BEYOND the model of the palace, to the far left), past the "Gothic" style 🏦compound basilica (which in reality would have been MUCH LOWER and WIDER, in the GRECO-ROMAN style, instead of looking like a Roman aquaduct). The model also OMITS the older Hasmonaean palace which would have been situated JUST ACROSS the central valley from the 🏦compound on the eastern slope of the Western Hill. Its ruins are NOW FINALLY being EXPOSED by Israeli archaeologists, creating an INCONGRUOUS scene (to say the least) with the smoothly MODERN paved plaza of the "Wailing Wall" city center.
OH MY GOD, they REALLY BOTCHED it!! The Ophel penisula ridge of Mount Zion was NOT walled!! The Herodian era wall went ACROSS the Ridge jutting out diagonally from the SE corner of the 🏦 Mount 🧱 and running west some distance in front of the 🏦Mount steps to the 💩 Gate (also called the "Valley Gate" and the "Zion Gate") in the central valley (NW of the Pool of Siloam), and along the southern slope of the Western Plateau and AROUND the Herodian palace estate situated on the southern butte of the plateau to join with the much OLDER Hezekhian 🧱 at it's SW corner. It DID NOT CROSS south through the Gehinnom Valley. They are trying to make the ancient city look MORE extensive than it WAS! And WHERE is the Pool of Siloam with its TOWERS and WIDE surrounding stairs?? They made this model TOO SOON because Israeili archaeologists are NOW FINALLY EXCAVATING the FULL extent of it!! The circus/hippodrome WAS NOT situated in the UNwalled area of the Central Valley opening into the city!! It was situated in the Wadi Abu Tor to the WEST of the city OUTSIDE the walls and BEYOND the Gehinnom Valley!! It was also ANNEXED to the THEATER and DID NOT have a rounded end since it was also used as a Greek-style 🦶as well as 🐎 racing stadium. An amphitheater for gladiator "games" was situated in the same wadi next to a ridge separating it from the other structure. The Herodian palace SHOULD NOT be on the WESTERN side of the city against the far wall but on the southern butte of the Western Plateau to the far left!! And it DIDN'T have three ornate towers at it. The three beautiful MIGDALIM, along with a fourth, would have been at each corner of the AMIGDALON Pool which was a large rectangular cistern that STILL exists and was built during King Hezekiah's reign where the ancient kosher "McDonald's" is shown in the model! There should also be a bunch of stepped mikvahs in front of the 🏦complex steps on the Ridge!! And the pavement slabs of the 🏛️ courts were NOT large, square, white stones laid straight like the linoleum floor of a modern kitchen or bathroom but RECTANGULAR GOLDEN ones laid at an ANGLE to the walls. The 🏦 itself looked like this 🏛️, the CLASSIC Greco-Roman COLUMNED type on a podium and with 🏠roof. It did NOT resemble the Moslem🕋!! Otherwise, WHERE is the "PINNACLE" or Apex of its 🏠 that Jesus was supposedly set up on by Satan to tempt him to throw himself down from?? And the ALTAR and BATH were in FRONT of the 🏦, facing the entrance, NOT to the SIDE of it!! The MEANING of the incident cited in the "Gospel" story is that IF Jesus HAD thrown himself down from the 🏠 of the 🏦 he would have LANDED ON the ALTAR of SACRIFICE!! 🤔 BUT............. as a SACRIFICIAL VICTIM TO SATAN!!!!😮🥵 THANK GOD Jesus didn't commit SUICIDE when the 👹👺 prompted him to!! And YOU SEE??!! The videogapher KNOWS that the host's claim that the SE corner city wall tower being the "Pinnacle of the 🏛️" is WRONG because the host ISN'T SHOWN pointing it out when he's talking about it!! It DOESN'T make sense! It could be called the "Pinnacle of the 🧱; BUT NOT the "PINNACLE/APEX of the 🏛️" itself!! LOUD and CLEAR: the PINNACLE of the 🏛️ was the HIGHT POINT or APEX of the PEDIMENT ARCH of its 🏠!!!! 🧐😳😁
And the 🏛️ Court gate DID NOT have an arc staircase leading up to it NOR pillars separating it from the Court of the Israelites but a 🧱 so outsiders COULDN'T see the ritual sacrifices being conducted; which were ORDAINED to be HIDDEN from NON-priestly 👀!! And WHERE is the OUTER "Court of the Women"?? This is ALL WRONG! The "Chamber of Hewn Stone" was WITHIN the "Court of the Israelites", NOT in the Basilica Stoa!! And the Judish priest-historian Josephus described the 🏛️ as being situated MORE to the NORTH and thus CLOSER to the 🕍 so that there was MORE open space to the SOUTH of it, where the TWO OTHER courts (of the Jewish men and the women) would be situated. It WAS NOT sited in the CENTER of the compound but DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM the eastern "Royal Gate" which is NEARER the Sheepgate in the line of the eastern wall, and the courts DID NOT progress from East to West but FROM SOUTH to NORTH!!
Josephus mentions that ONLY the EAST-facing FRONT side or FACADE of the 🏛️ was 🪙plated; probably to reflect the rays of the 🌅! Thus, the 🏛️, LIKE the "S🌞N of G☀d", apparently had a SOLAR SIGNificance. THIS WOULD explain the CURIOUS "detail" of the huge "Zion 🪨" in the CENTER of the Temple Mount platform. Since the 🏦, UNlike the present mosque, WAS NOT situated over it, it was left EXPOSED. BUT, it was NOT paved over with the slabstones! The present LATERAL ⛺ shape of the 🪨was CARVED by the Herodian stonemasons to RESEMBLE a NAVEL, like the "OMPHALOS" at the famous Greek prophecy center of the ☀god Apollo's 🏛️ at Delphi!! So the otherwise UNexplained ledge on its straight edge was CUT BY THEM to FIT the platform PAVEMENT SLABS ON, with the other slabs laid as closely as possible around the curved sides to highlight the ⛺ shape "embedded in" the courts platform. THUS, Herod was SLYLY implying that his royal capital city of JERUSALEM, and NOT Delphi (OR Rome!), was the "center or NAVEL of the World" in the "Holy Land" of ISRAEL at the confluence of the two great land masses on THAT side of the 🌍: Eurasia and Africa!!
The model shows THE TEMPLE the modern Israeli Jews WANT to build, NOT WHAT WAS!!😮
BUT, the model has one element correct: the SE tower of the Antoneion WAS the TALLEST of the four according to Josephus' description of the castellum.
The 🏦 WAS NOT the Kaaba Alla!! It was "Classical" Greco-Roman style! We KNOW this because there is an ancient sculpture of it from that time on the lintel ruins of the synagogue at CAPHARNUM represented as the Ark of the Covenant; which is WHERE the Christian "Gospel" authors got the idea of the Levitical 🏛️ being the "Old Covenant" and the Body of Christ being the "New Covenant"!! 😮
And there are ADDITIONAL clues. Josephus described the 🏛️ and its surrounding buildings as appearing like a 🏔️ of ❄️ gleaming in the ☀️ shine. And the "Gospel" account of the 👹 setting Jesus up on the "PINNACLE" or APEX of the 🏛️ indicates it had an 🏠roof.
The 🏛 complex was ALL ⚪, because Josephus described it as looking like a shining 🏔️ of ❄️ !!
Get it?? ❄️🏦🏔️. 😁
The INNER courts of the 🏦 (the Court of the Women, the Court of the Israelites, and the Court of the Priests where the slaughter sacrifices were conducted) would HAVE to have been arranged vertically/lengthwise from SOUTH to NORTH because the horizontal width of the complex was too small to accommodate them from West to East!! A COMMON architectural misconception about the structure.
THIS detail about the ⛺️ of the 🪨 means SEVERAL things: first, it would have taken a great amount of the soil and rock cut away from the western slope of the Zion plateau in creating the sheer vertical side for a 🧱 to cover the area of the 🏦courts around the 🪨 and OVERLAY THAT high enough with the slabstones so that the 🪨 didn't jut up enough to be an UNtransable obstruction; it would also mean that the one INDENTED corner of it was CUT LATER BY MOSLEM masons, thereby IMbalancing the outline of the ⛺ shape️, to create the entrance to the cavern beneath the 🪨that THEY ALSO carved out as a "prayer place" when they built their mosque! Originally, there WASN'T a cavern under it with SMOOTHLY polished walls; which is WHY such an UNusual place is NOT mentioned in the "Old Testament" accounts of the Judish 🏦! It had NO significance because it DIDN'T exist then, and the Jews apparently had NO reason to carve one out! The "significance" of it for the Moslems is their claim that THIS was where the prophet Mohammed landed to pray on his "lightening steed" Baraka's "night flight" from Mecca or Medina to Jerusalem. Some have accounted for it being there originally when the Jewish temples existed, as a 🦴 repository of the slaughtered sacrificial animals. BUT the Levitical Law would have PROHIBITED the keeping of ANY bodily remains "entombed" on the 🏛️ premises as being "UNCLEAN" and the feature is NOT mentioned in the Mishna and the Talmud accounts of the 🏦. Therefore, it MUST date from MOSLEM times.