page_title: Gabbatha
section_title: Identification
hierarchical_section_title: Gabbatha / Identification
caption_attribution_description: English: The "photograph" shows the Roman street (1) and triple arch (2), with a dotted line (3) fixing the present street level and the stairs (4) leading down to a covered way by which ... troops could be sent from the fortress Antonia to the court of the temple. The pavement is cut with marks (5) for games the Roman soldiers played. In the corner is the pedestal or prophet's stone (6) from which Pilate possibly addressed the excited Jews. The upright dotted lines (7) show the section of the arches now built into the convent chapel. At the side is shown the arch as it spans the present street (8)
context_page_description: Gabbatha is the Aramaic name of a place in Jerusalem that is also referred to by the Greek name of Lithostrōtos. It is thought by Christians to be the place of the trial of Jesus before his crucifixion c. 30/33 AD. The site of the Church of Ecce Homo is traditionally thought to be its location, but archaeological investigation has proven this unlikely. Herod's Palace is a more likely location.
context_section_description: Efforts have been made by commentators to identify Gabbatha either with the outer court of the Temple, which is known to have been paved, or with the meeting-place of the Great Sanhedrin, which was half within, half without that Temple's outer court, or again with the ridge at the back of the House of the Lord; but these efforts cannot be considered as successful.
  According to Pierre Benoit, Pilate carried out his judgements at Herod's Palace at the southwest side of the city, rather than at this point in the city's northeast corner. Archaeological studies have confirmed that the Roman pavement at these two traditional stations was built by Hadrian in the 2nd century AD as the flooring of the eastern forum of Aelia Capitolina. Prior to Hadrian's changes, the area had been a large open-air pool of water, the Struthion Pool mentioned by Josephus. The pool still survives under vaulting added by Hadrian so that the forum could be built over it, and can be accessed from the portion of Roman paving under the Convent of the Sisters of Zion, and from the Western Wall Tunnel.
  A triple-arched gateway built by Hadrian as an entrance to the eastern forum of Aelia Capitolina was traditionally, but as archaeological investigation shows, mistakenly, said to have been part of the gate of Herod's Antonia Fortress. This was alleged to be the location of Jesus' trial and Pilate's Ecce homo speech.
caption: Depiction of the gateway of the eastern forum of Aelia Capitolina and original Roman pavement. The vertical lines show where the wall of the Convent of the Sisters of Zion currently extends. The horizontal line shows the modern street level. The stairs led to the Antonia Fortress.[3]
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