Ben-Ami and Tchekhanovets (2013) excavated a large peristyle building of the Late Roman period southwest of the Temple Mount, within the Givati site of the City of David. Ben-Ami et al. (2013) dated its construction to the third century CE, based on a coin from the reign of Diocletian (r. 284-305 CE) that had been built into one of the walls. The coin, a provincial Roman issue minted in Alexandria in 285 CE, provides a terminus post quem for the building’s foundation. The mansion later suffered a sudden and violent collapse that buried numerous coins beneath the debris in its rooms. As these coins date no later than 361 CE, they establish a terminus post quem for the building's destruction (Ben-Ami and Tchekhanovets 2013).

According to the excavators, in the mansion’s western wing “the floor of the living area collapsed, burying nearly all the remains of the ground floor,” while “the surviving walls … were found under massive heaps of stones from the walls of the upper story.” They observed “a large crack” running through the stone slabs of the underlying water systems, evidence — together with the fallen masonry and associated finds — of “the immense catastrophe [the building] underwent.” The ceramic assemblage within and below the collapse dated to the Late Roman–Early Byzantine period (third–fourth centuries CE) and was dominated by ```html arched-rim basins and rouletted bowls.