The Mugrabi (Moroccan) Gate from the Wailing Wall esplanade towards the western Temple Precinct wall.

 

At the left the golden Dome of the Rock. In the middle, the temporary bridge from the Wailing Wall esplanade to the Gate of the Mores. On the right the excavations in progress to save the already excavated area from a dangerous landslide toward the North as well as the South. The style of the future bridge is still under discussion. The excavations aren't.

Ostracon with early Proto-Caananite script (15x15 cm), found by Y. Garfinkel at Qeiyafa (the Ella Valley) mentioning the words "Judge","King", "Servant" and "Don't do" lacking in Canaanite. In Hebrew, the words are: Shofet, Melekh, Eved and 'al-ta'ase', respectively. The date of the ostracon was established by radiocarbon dating of the organic contect in which it was found. Thermoluminescence dating of the shard itself will give the age of the pot and not necessarily that of the writing. The faint script is not very promising for either HPLC composition-identification or Raman Spectroscopy and its subsequent dating by C14 (Insufficient amount of ink to be dated).
The ostracon was analyzed by Jan Gunneweg using INAA to learn the origin of the letter