Biblical Archaeology Review

For information on available booklets, see “New Guidebook Series Spotlights Jordan’s Archaeological Heritage,” Books in Brief, BAR 15:02.

See Neil Asher Silberman, “In Search of Solomon’s Lost Treasure,” BAR 06:04.

See Hershel Shanks, “The City of David After Five Years of Digging,” BAR 11:06.

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) are the scholarly alternate designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D.

Directed by the late Yigal Shiloh of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the excavations were conducted from 1978 to 1985. Authors Tarler and Cahill served as area supervisors in Area G where one of the toilet seats that are the focus of this article were discovered, and are now responsible for publishing the results of the excavations in that area.

See “The Mysterious Pot from Tel Batash,” BAR 15:01, and letters in Queries & Comments, BAR 15:03.

See “Archaeological Stumpers,” BAR 08:02, and letters in BAR 18:04. (See Queries & Comments, BAR 8:02)

See Joseph A. Callaway, “Sir Flinders Petrie: Father of Palestinian Archaeology,” BAR 06:06.

Gus W. Van Beek, “The Buzz: A Simple Toy from Antiquity,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 275 (1989), p. 53.