Biblical Archaeology Review

Elisabetta Povoledo, “Colosseum Makeover to Start This Year,” The New York Times, August 2, 2012.

Random House, 2012.

This is laid out in full by Klaus Schmidt in his book Sie Bauten die Ersten Tempel (Munich: C.H. Beck Press, 2006).

Klaus Schmidt, “Göbekli Tepe—the Stone Age Sanctuaries: New Results of Ongoing Excavations with a Special Focus on Sculptures and High Reliefs,” Documenta Praehistorica 37 (2010), pp. 239–256.

For more details, see Barkay, “The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Daughter—A Reassessment.”

Nahman Avigad, Ancient Monuments in the Kidron Valley (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1954 [Hebrew]).

There may have been another monolithic tomb, in Jerusalem’s northern necropolis, north of Damascus Gate; see Gabriel Barkay, “Three First-Temple Period Burial Caves North of Damascus Gate and the Date of Jerusalem’s Northern Moat,” Cathedra 83 (1997), pp. 18–20 (Hebrew).

Full citations may be found in Gabriel Barkay, “The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Daughter—A Reassessment,” in Eyal Meiron, ed., City of David—Studies of Ancient Jerusalem (Jerusalem: Megalim Institute, 2011). In each case, “curse” is spelled without the wow, so-called defective spelling.

It is true that the word “cursed” in this inscription is spelled with an additional letter, a wow, so-called plene spelling in which the wow serves as a vowel between the two resh’s. Both spellings were used at this time.

Only a bit of the sunken panel survived on the right side. A number of other panels intended for inscriptions, but for unknown reasons never inscribed, have been found. A similar sunken panel has recently been highlighted by Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron in the City of David at the opening to Tunnel IV. Part of the panel on which the famous Siloam Inscription is inscribed is also empty, as if the surviving inscription is incomplete. Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron, “The Date of the Siloam Tunnel Reconsidered,” Tel Aviv 38 (2011), pp. 147–157.