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Reich, Excavating the City of David, p. 307.

Ronny Reich, Excavating the City of David (Jerusalem and Washington, DC: Israel Exploration Society and the Biblical Archaeology Society, 2010), p. 265. See also Israel Finkelstein, Ze’ev Herzog, Lily Singer-Avitz and David Ussishkin, “Has King David’s Palace in Jerusalem Been Found?” Tel Aviv 34 (2007), p. 142.

Amnon Rosenfeld, Shimon Ilani, Wolfgang E. Krumbein, Steve Daren, Howard R. Feldman, “A Stone Oil Lamp with Seven Nozzles from the Late Second Temple Period—First Century CE,” Liber Annuus, Volume XL (2010).

Strabo, Geographica 12.8.20.

The story of the miraculous discovery of Zechariah’s relics is told by fifth-century church historian Sozomen in his Historia Ecclesiastica 9.17.

Tractate Shabbat 13b. See von Wahlde, “The Nature and History of the Birkat Isra’il and Its Relation to the Pool,” pp. 159–181.

Mishnah, Mikva’ot 6.8.

This channel extended southward toward the Temple Mount. Archaeologists have been able to explore this channel only for about 50 yards before reaching blockage, so its precise destination cannot be determined.