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Frank Moore Cross, “Notes on the Forged Plaque Recording Repairs to the Temple,” Israel Exploration Journal 53 (2003), pp. 119–123.

Josephus, Jewish War i 63; Jewish Antiquities xiii 257.

Papyri Cairo Zenon, nos. 59006, 59015 and 59537.

Eusebius, Onomastikon, Greville Freeman-Grenville, Rupert L. Chapman and Joan E. Taylor, eds., Palestine in the Fourth century A.D.: The Onomasticon by Eusebius of Caesarea (Carta: Jerusalem, 2003), pp. 72, 144; Edward Robinson was the first to establish the location of Marisa at Tell el-Sandahannah from the literary evidence. See Robinson, Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea. A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838 by Edward Robinson and Eli Smith, 3 vols. (Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1841), pp. 422–423.

2 Maccabees 6:7 reports the celebration of Dionysiac rites by the Hellenising party among the Jews on the eve of the Maccabean uprising.

David M. Jacobson, The Hellenistic Paintings of Marisa (London: Oxbow Books/Palestine Exploration Fund), forthcoming.

Horace, Odes, ii 19, 29–32.

Hölbl. p. 171; Martin P. Nilsson, The Dionysiac Mysteries of the Hellenistic and Roman Age (Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1957), pp. 11–12.

Hölbl, p. 171. The devotion of Ptolemy IV to Dionysus is attested to in Greek historical texts, including 3 Maccabees 2:28–29. The strong incentive offered by this monarch to the Jews of Alexandria to participate in Dionysiac mysteries is mentioned in 3 Maccabees 2:30, namely the granting of equal civic rights with the citizens of the metropolis.

Günther Hölbl, A History of the Ptolemaic Empire (London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 93–94, 170–71.