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Stephen Herbert Langdon, Die neubabylonische Königsinschriften, tr. R. Zehnpfund, Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 4 (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1911), p. 222 Nabonidus Nr. 1, lines 11–12.

Haran, Temples and Temple Service, pp. 246–259.

See William F. Albright, “What Were the Cherubim?” in The Biblical Archaeology Reader 1, eds. G. Ernest Wright, David Noel Freedman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 95–97.

Haran, Temples and Temple Service in Ancient Israel. An Inquiry into the Character of Cult Phenomena and the Historical Setting of the Priestly School (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), pp. 149–204.

For a detailed discussion of these vessels and their cultic use, see Victor A. Hurowitz, “Solomon’s Golden Vessels and the Cult of the First Temple,” in >al Shulei Ha-Me>il: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom, eds. David P. Wright and David Noel Freedman (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, forthcoming).

See Meyers, “Was There a Seven-Branched Lampstand in Solomon’s Temple?” BAR 05:05.

See Ephraim Stern, “The Phoenician Architectural Elements in Palestine During the late Iron Age and the Persian Period,” in The Architecture of Ancient Israel from the Prehistoric to the Persian Periods. In Memory of Immanuel (Munya) Dunayevsky, eds. Aharon Kempinski, Ronnie Reich (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1992), pp. 302–309, esp. p 306.

Eric Burrows, “Problems of the Abzu,” Orientalia, n.s. 1 (1952), pp. 231–256. See also Walter Andrae, Das Wiedererstandende Assur, 2nd ed., B. Hrouda (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1977), p. 34, illus. 16, for a basalt water basin from the time of Sennacherib (688–681 B.C.E.).

See Helga Weippert, “Die Kesselwagen Salomos,” Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina Vereins 108 (1992), pp. 16–41.