Siloam, a great rock-cut pool to the south-east of Jerusalem, with a second or lower reservoir connected with it by an aqueduct. See JERUSALEM and map; and for the ancient Siloam inscription describing the making of a tunnel from a spring to the pool, found in the tunnel in 1880, see INSCRIPTIONS, Vol. VI. p. 159; HEBREW LANGUAGE, Vol. V. p. 614.
Siloam
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 458
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