‘Atiqot 79, 2014 A Section of the Gezer–rAmlA Aqueduct (qAnAt Bint Al-KAfir) And A mAmluK-Period cemetery neAr moShAv y AShreSh Amir GorzAlczAny introduction For the past sixty years, archaeologists and farmers have been exposing sections of the Umayyad-period aqueduct between Gezer and Ramla (Fig. 1; Gorzalczany 2011). In July and August 2006, a further segment of this aqueduct was uncovered during salvage 186 000 188 000 190 000 192 000 186 000 188 000 190 000 192 000 194 000 646 000 646 000 648 000 648 000 644 000 644 000 642 000 642 000 80 70 100 90 210 130 140 180 80 100 110 90 90 90 80 70 0 2 km Ramla Area A Area B to Tel Aviv White Mosque Yashresh (cemetery) to Be’er Sheva‘ Mazliah to Re ovot h Road 40 The Aqueduct Na‘an Tel Gezer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Petahya 1. Kaplan and Gophna 1950 (see Zelinger and Shmueli 2002:281, Fig. 2) 2. Zelinger and Shmueli 2002 3. Gorzalczany 2011 4. Toueg 2010 5. Tsion-Cinamon 2005 6. Zelinger 2000 7. Zelinger and Shmueli 2002 8. Zelinger and Shmueli 2002 9. Zelinger 2001 10. The Excavation 11. Tal and Taxel 2008; Gorzalczany 2006; 2008a; 2008d Fig. 1. Location map showing the current excavation areas (10; Areas A, B), the reconstructed course of the aqueduct, the cemetery, and previous excavations and surveys.