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George F. Hill, Greek Coins of Lycia, Pamphylia and Pisidia (London: British Museum, 1897), pp. 95–101, plates 19–21 (Aspendus), p. 258 and plate 39 (Selge).

Michael Poliakoff, Combat Sports in the Ancient World (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1987), pp. 23–53; Harold A. Harris, Greek Athletes and Athletics (London: Hutchinson, 1964), pp. 102–105.

Bickerman, Jews, p. 14. For a review of the archaeological and documentary evidence of the use of Aramaic in the Levant during Persian rule, see Fergus Millar, “The Problem of Hellenistic Syria,” in Amélie Kuhrt and Susan Sherwin-White, eds., Hellenism in the East: The Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander (London: Duckworth, 1987), pp. 111–113.

Martin Noth, “Zur Geschichte des Namens Palästina,” Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 62 (1939), p. 133. Noth confines his observation of the resemblance of Palaistinê to palaistês to a short footnote (p. 133, n.3).

Homer, Odyssey 8.246; Herodotus, Histories 3.137, et al.

Josephus, Antiquities 20.259.

Josephus, Antiquities 1.145. Admittedly, this reference is made in connection with events in Genesis, before the arrival of the Israelites. See Feldman, “Observations,” pp. 11–12.