Approximately one in four pottery fragments recovered by the TMSP date to the Early Islamic Period (638-1099), mostly consisting of Ummayad tableware and storage vessels, and Abbasid tableware, storage and cooking vessels. Other finds include many architectural elements connected to the construction of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the most prominent being thousands of colored and gilded mosaic tesserae belonging to wall mosaics, most likely the mosaics akin to those adorning the inner walls of the dome of the rock, which adorned the outer walls till their replacement by glazed tiles in the 16th century.
During this period, the use of the sub-floor structure of the Temple Mount as a stables by the Knights Templar gave Solomon's Stables its current name. This is reflected in finds such as hundreds of armor scales, horseshoe
nails, and arrowheads. Over a hundred silver Crusader coins make up the
biggest and most varied collection of such coins from Jerusalem. Opus Sectile tiles from this era match up exactly to patterns seen under the Dome of the Rock's carpeting, as well as the church of the Holy Sepulchre.Below some additional sources on the subsurface of Temple Mount.
- Penetrating Insights into the Temple Mount by Tuvia Sagiv (?)
- The Temple in Jerusalem by Erenow (?)
- Jerusalem Temple Mount: The Charles Wilson and Charles Warren map collection with notes (1864)
- Ordnance survey of Jerusalem by Captain Charles W. Wilson, R. E., (1886)
- The Hidden Secrets of the Temple Mount by Tuvia Sagiv (1996)
- Jerusalem - History, Archeology and Apologetic Proof of Scripture by Galyn Wiemers (2010)
- What is Beneath the Temple Mount? by Joshua Hammer (2011)
- Secrets under the Al-Aqsa Mosque: A Photographic Essay by Lenny Ben-David (2015)
- Fun Facts about Solomon’s Stables on the Temple Mount by Anonymous (2017)
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