Editing Pool of Siloam (section)

===Late Roman and Byzantine periods===
[[File:Siloam72.jpg|thumb|The [[Byzantine]] pool of Siloam]]
[[File:TRISTRAM(1870) p058 THE POOL OF SILOAM.jpg|thumb|right|Handcolored photo of the site (c. 1865)]]

Roman sources mention a ''Shrine of the Four Nymphs'' (''Tetranymphon''), a [[nymphaeum]] built by [[Hadrian]] during the construction of [[Aelia Capitolina]] in the year 135<ref>Dave Winter, ''Israel handbook'', (1999), p. 180.</ref><ref>André Grabar, ''Martyrium'', (1946), volume 1, p. 193.</ref><ref>E. Wiegand, ''The Theodosian Monastery'', (1929), volume 11, pp. 50–72</ref> and mentioned in Byzantine works such as the 7th-century ''[[Chronicon Paschale]]''; other nymphaea built by Hadrian, such as that at [[Sagalassos]], are very similar.<ref>for example, see [http://www.akmedanmed.com/resim/3/13_1.jpg this view] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103215547/http://www.akmedanmed.com/resim/3/13_1.jpg |date=2018-11-03 }}</ref> It is unlikely that this shrine was built on the site of the Second Temple Pool of Siloam, but it may have been a precursor to the Byzantine reconstruction.

In the [[5th century]], a pool was constructed at the end of the Siloam tunnel at the behest of [[Aelia Eudocia]], [[queen consort|empress consort]] of the [[Byzantine Empire]]. This pool survives today, surrounded by a high stone wall with an arched entrance to Hezekiah's Tunnel. The pool is around {{convert|70|yd}} from the [[Second Temple period]] Lower Pool and is significantly smaller. Until the discovery of the Second Temple pool, this pool was wrongly thought to be the one described in the [[New Testament]] and Second Temple sources.