Benenstein et al. (2025:25) report that excavations in Building I of Area B show that the second phase ended, according to Baumgarten, "with an earthquake as indicated in units uncovered in Area B by both Cohen and him". Earthquake evidence included "skewed or warped walls, fallen voussoirs and missing worked stones of the inner faces of many of the gravel-made walls of the rooms". Benenstein et al. (2025:25) also report that "Baumgarten assigned this earthquake to the 5th century CE with some hesitation, as coins in the fills of this stratum were tentatively dated to the late 4th century CE, but given their current readings (Chapter 9, Table 9.1, Rooms 41 and 200), some of them can be dated to the 4th–5th centuries CE, making this phase dated to either the Late Roman or Early Byzantine period".