The sacred source lies on the right after the façade of the hostages in a closed iron door. We descend some steps lower than the ground in a room. It’s roof is supported by stone pillars. Sometime the water was flowing from the West wall and ended up in a rectangular basin in the East trough a channel.
The source was constructed in the 5th century BC and was the same level as the ground without roof. Later when the Romans lifted up the level of the market, it became underground. At the bottom of the scale there is a wall that hides a cave. On that wall there are two copper pumps that display heads of lions. Behind the wall there are channels that collect water. That water was collected in containers to serve sacred purposes. When later the waters dried up, they didn’t destroy it but covered it with stone plates because the place was considered to be sacred. Thus it was protected and safe from the invaders who virtually ravaged everything.
