The Palatial Mansion dates to the Second Temple period and was located in the affluent residential area on the western hill of Jerusalem, also known as the Upper City. At 11x6.5m, the Reception Hall was a spacious and elegant room. Preserved to a height of 3m, its walls were covered with white stucco modeled in relief as panels, thus imitating drafted masonry best known for retaining walls of the Herod’s Temple Mount complex. The Palatial Mansion was destroyed, along with the entire city, by the Romans in 70 CE.