Biblical Archaeology Review

“BARview: Israeli Authorities Now Responsible for Delay in Publication of Dead Sea Scrolls,” BAR 11:05.

See Geza Vermes and Pamela Vermes, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective (London: William Collins, 1977) p. 24.

The “millo” (MIL-loh; related to the Hebrew word for “earthen fill”) was a terraced supporting construction in Jerusalem (and probably elsewhere), which continually needed repair and strengthening. The word is used six times in the Bible. “Beth (BAYT) Millo” was the “House of Millo,” a building associated with the millo, apparently the king’s palace at the “Lower House of the King,” in the City of David.

See Benjamin Mazar, “Excavations Near Temple Mount Reveal Splendors of Herodian Jerusalem,” BAR 06:04; and Hershel Shanks, “Excavating in the Shadow of the Temple Mount,” BAR 12:06.

Translated by Steven Schwarzman.

Nor did that spree exhaust Osorkon’s treasury. Before the end of his reign it appears that he had to bury his coregent son Shoshenq II. In 1939, Professor Pierre Montet found Shoshenq II entombed in a solid silver coffin at Tanis.

The deben weight in the New Kingdom (1550–1070 B.C.) and later has been computed at about 91 grams, from weighing extant examples. (See Sir A. H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar [Oxford, 1950], ss. 266:4).

An ostracon is a potsherd with an inscription on it.