Biblical Archaeology Review

In the north, the Yahwistic ending is spelled yod-vav (Yau); in the south, it is almost always spelled yod-heh-vav (Yahu). This gives credence to the antiquities dealer’s report that the seal was found in Samaria, part of the northern kingdom.

Had the foundations of the western apse of the original basilica not been discovered in 1968 by the Greek Community’s architect with the Technical Office, even the emplacement of the huge edifice would not have been exactly known. However, this happy excavation has fixed that emplacement with certitude and has given much greater reliability to Father Coüasnon’s study of Constantine’s basilica which enclosed Golgotha.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (London: Oxford University Press 1974). xi–64 pp., 16 plates. $9.75.

Y. Yadin et al. Hazor I, Jerusalem, 1958, p. 13.

Translated by Aryeh Finkelstein.

Sometimes, but not always, the absence of tethering holes can be explained on the ground that the pillar had not been preserved to a height at which the hole would appear. Pritchard suggests that the holes may have been used to secure drag ropes to haul the heavy pillars from the quarry to the building site. But the inconsistency of the appearance of the holes is as much a problem for this explanation as for the suggestion that they were tethering holes.

The sole surviving participant in this discussion confirms that it took place, but declines to allow his name to be used.

Washington, D.C.: Public Affair Press, 1975.