Conrad Schick
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Conrad Schick was a German architect, archaeologist and Protestant missionary who settled in Jerusalem in the mid-nineteenth century. For many decades, he was head of the "House of Industry" at the Ch
Drawing of Schick
Tabor House, Jerusalem
German Hospital on Straus Street, today Bikur Holim Hospital, designed by Conrad Schick
Schick's model of Herod's Temple on the Temple Mount, Schmidt's Girls College, Jerusalem, with portrait of Schick in the background
Siloam inscription
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The Siloam inscription, Silwan inscription or Shiloah inscription, known as KAI 189, is a Hebrew inscription found in the Siloam tunnel which brings water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam,
Conrad Schick
…off limits to non-Muslims. Consequently, he built models of the Temple Mount (see below). Schick was involved in the discovery and initial study of the Siloam Inscription describing how the Siloam Tunnel was finished, probably in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah. In 1874 Schick was the first scholar to publish a…
Siloam Inscription 2
A copy of the inscription, in its original location inside Hezekiah's Tunnel, 2010
The inscription and display case at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, 2014.
A copy of the inscription, with English translation