Excavations near nahmanides cave in Jerusalem and the question of the identification of biblical nob

This article presents a salvage excavation undertaken in 2001 near Nahmanides Cave, in the upper section of Kidron Valley, Jerusalem. Segments of open limestone quarries from the second-first centuries BCE were uncovered. The quarries were covered in antiquity by an earth fill, containing large quantities of pottery from the end of the Iron Age (seventh-sixth centuries BCE). The fill may have been brought here from a nearby settlement, the stones of which were dismantled and reused. The article discusses the possibility of the identification of this settlement - which no longer exists - as biblical Nob, located north of Jerusalem.