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This is actually Hanan Eshel’s second attempt. His first article on this subject is “A Note on ‘Miqvaot’ at Sepphoris,” in Douglas R. Edwards and C. Thomas McCollough, eds., Archaeology and the Galilee (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997), p. 131.

See Amos Kloner, “Maresha,” Qadmoniot 24 (1991), p. 81 (in Hebrew); Martha S. Joukouwsky, ed., The Heritage of Tyre (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1992), p. 2.

It is possible that there is one—as yet unpublished—exception.

See Reich, “Miqvaot (Jewish Ritual Immersion Baths) in Eretz-Israel in the Second Temple and the Mishnah and Talmudic Periods” (Ph.D. diss., Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, 1990); and “The Great Mikveh Debate,” BAR 19:02.

Mishnah, Sheqalim 8.2; see Saul Lieberman, “Notes,” P’raqim 1 (1967–1968), pp. 97–98 (in Hebrew); Bargil Pixner, “An Essene Quarter on Mount Zion,” in Studia Hierosolymitana, vol. 1, Archaeological Studies (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing, 1976), pp. 270–271.

Ronny Reich, “Mishnah, Sheqalim 8:2 and the Archaeological Evidence,” in Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period: Abraham Schalit Memorial Volume, ed. Aaron Oppenheimer, Uriel Rappaport and Menachem Stern (Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1980), pp. 225–256 (in Hebrew); and “A Miqweh at al Isawiya near Jerusalem,” Israel Exploration Journal 34 (1984), pp. 220–223.

Yigael Yadin,Masada: Herod’s Fortress and the Zealot’s Last Stand (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966), pp. 164–167.

See, for example, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Ancient Near East, s.v. “Sepphoris.”

The plaster was dated by its materials and by comparison to the table prepared by Dr. Yosef Porath (Porath, “Lime Plaster in Aqueducts—A New Chronological Indicator,” Mitteilungen 82 [1989], [Braunschweig: Leichtweiss Institut für Wasserbau der Technischen Universität], pp. 1–16).