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In my view, the yāṣîa‘ and ṣelā‘ot in Solomon’s Temple were probably wooden fixtures enveloping the building and not a stone structure consisting of a series of rooms and chambers. As for the still enigmatic migrā‘ôt, they were stepped recesses in the outer wall which supported the board-like yeṣî‘îm, and are in no way similar to the columns or pilasters standing along the corridors at ‘Ain Dara.
Amihai Mazar, “Temples of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages and the Iron Age,” in Aaron Kempinski and Ronny Reich, eds., The Architecture of Ancient Israel: From the Prehistoric to the Persian Periods (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1992), pp. 161–187.
Leen Ritmeyer, The Quest (Jerusalem: Carta, 2006), p. 168.
Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem, p. 117.
See Nahman Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1980), p. 28.
Ussishkin, “The Temple Mount in Jerusalem,” pp. 473–483.
For the initial publication of the cuneiform tablet, see Mazar, Horowitz, Oshima and Goren, “A Cuneiform Tablet from the Ophel in Jerusalem,” pp. 4–21.
In Eilat Mazar, Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima and Yuval Goren, “A Cuneiform Tablet from the Ophel in Jerusalem,” Israel Exploration Journal 60 (2010), p. 5.
David Ussishkin, “The Temple Mount in Jerusalem During the First Temple Period: An Archaeologist’s View,” in J. David Schloen, ed., Exploring the Longue Durée (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009), p. 480.
Eilat Mazar, “The Solomonic Wall in Jerusalem,” in Aren M. Maeir and P. de Mroschedji, eds., “I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times,” vol. 2 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006), p. 775. See also Eilat Mazar, The Complete Guide to the Temple Mount Excavations (Jerusalem: Shoham Academic Research and Publication, 2002), p. 5.
