The pottery below the foundation is dated by Eilat Mazar to the Iron Age I, and the pottery above is dated to the Iron Age II . Due to the Law of superposition ( the empirical rule stating that, in general, the older things are lower down ), this implies, according to Eilat Mazar, that the foundation and hence the building was constructed somewhere between Iron Age I and Iron Age II ( roughly between the eleventh and tenth centuries BC ).
