You are hereHomeBARMay/June 1987King Solomon’s Wall Still Supports the Temple Mount On this basis, Yadin argued that the Israelite fortress that Aharoni excavated at Arad, and which he dated to the Iron Age, was in fact Hellenistic. Yadin, A Note on the Stratigraphy of Arad, IEJ 15 (1965). Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.