Date created: 701 BC
Location written in: Jerusalem
Genre: Record of Achievement
Other notes:
When confronted with the threat of the Assyrians King Hezekiah (the thirteenth King of Judah) decided to have a tunnel made to secure water into Jerusalem; the action was mentioned in the Bible: once in 2 Kings 2 and again in 2 Chronicles 32.
The inscription was discovered in 1880 by a young boy who was exploring the Tunnel with his friend. (Jerusalem: The Biography, Simon Montefiore, Page 42.)
The inscription reads:
“[...when] (the tunnel) was driven through. And this was the way in which it was cut through: While [...] (were) still [...] axe(s), each man toward his fellow, and while there were still three cubits to be cut through, [there was heard] the voice of a man calling to his fellows, for there was an overlap in the rock on the right [and on the left]. And when the tunnel was driven through, the quarrymen hewed (the rock), each man toward his fellow, axe against axe; and the water flowed from the spring toward the reservoir for 1200 cubits, and the height of the rock above the head(s) of the quarrymen was 100 cubits.”
It is pictured below:
A photo of Hezekiah's Tunnel can also be viewed below:
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