Sentences with phrase «emptied cistern»

While Gibson stresses that it is again too early to draw conclusions about these items, he and the other researchers are considering these items as a possible indication that the emptied cistern was used as a refuge by Jewish residents hiding from Roman soldiers during the siege of 70 CE.

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In many communities, people empty their latrines into the nearest river; with the Duke system, they either have their cisterns pumped or they carry it to the container.