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Caverns Are Between
Rock And Hard Place
Jerusalem — The land
around Kibbutz Bet Govrin is
scrubby, sparsely populated
and seemingly of little in-
terest to the visitor. But
underground, the visitor can
find cool, damp relief from the
summer heat of the Lachish
area.
About 20 miles southwest of
Jerusalem, and six miles due
east of Kiryat Gat, Bet
Govrin stands on the site of
the Byzantine city of that
name, near the hillock that is
all that's left of the ancient ci-
ty of Marissa.
The people of Marissa — an
important city fortified by
King Rehoboam, son of
Solomon, in 930 B.C.E. and
finally destroyed almost a
thousand years later — were
probably the first to carve
caves out of the soft, chalky
rock.
Either they or the later in-
habitants of Bet Govrin goug-
ed out the huge bell-shaped
caverns that can be seen
today.
Whether they were ex-
cavated as underground quar-
ries for the bricks to build
their city, or as water cisterns
or storage chambers for their
food, is a matter of debate
among Israeli archaeologists.
But whatever the purpose
of the caves — and there are
some 600 of them in the area,
though only a very few are ac-
cessible to the visitor — the
result is a sheer marvel of the
industry of ancient Israel.
The interconnecting caves,
each with its own narrow, cir-
cular hole in the roof from
where the digging began, are
excting for the visitor in-
terested in out-of-the-way
sites.
Apparently, the ancient ex-
cavators cut through the hard
surface rock, and then, upon
reaching the soft chalk —
which did not crumble owing
to the damp underground —
they could easily widen the
hole and gradually achieve
the bell shape one sees today.
Now the visitor can look 30
feet up to the roof of the
caverns and see the rays of
sun streaming through the
opening.
Access to the caves is from
floor level, over the remains of
more fragile caves whose roofs
disintegrated over the
centuries.
Nearby, there are other
caves, smaller in size but no
less impressive.
One is the "Colombarium,"
or Cave of the Doves, named
for its 2,000-odd pigeon-holes
carved out of the soft chalk
walls.
Archaeologists are again at
a loss to explain the purpose
of these niches. Some say they
are used to deposit the ashes
of the dead, while others sug-
gest they were indeed used for
breeding pigeons — either to
be used in pagan rites, or else
simly as food.
The visitor has to be a lit-
tle adventurous to reach the
Colombarium, as access to
the cross-shaped cave is ac-
complished by crawling
through a narrow passage.
Another cave just off the
road is one of many Grecian-
style burial caves in the area.
This cave, discovered at the
beginning of the century, once
had rich wall paintings — for-
tunatley recorded for posteri-
ty in drawings made soon
after it was found — that have
faded almost completely since
then.
Here one can see large aper-
tures with triangular ceil-
ings, which once held the cof-
fins of the nobles of Marissa.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
I NEWS I
No Appeal
On PLO Office
Washington (JTA) — The
Reagan Administration has
decided not to appeal a U.S.
District Court ruling in June
barring the closing of the
Palestine Liberation
Organization's observer mis-
sion at the United Nations.
In a statement released
Monday, the Justice Depart-
ment said, "On balance, the
interests of the United States
are best served by not appeal-
ing."
The announcement was
made as the 60-day period
during which the United
States was given an oppor-
tunity to file an appeal ex-
pired. Judge Edmund
Palmieri of the U.S. District
Court in New York ruled
June 28 that closing the mis-
sion would violate the 1947
U. N . Headquarters
Agreement.
That treaty prevents host
nations from closing the U.N.
missions of member states.
Palmieri said the treaty
leaves no doubt that the
United States is obligated "to
refrain from impairing the
function" of the PLO's U.N.
mission.