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Yigal Shiloh, Excavations at the City of David I, 1978–1982: Interim Report of the First Five Seasons, Qedem 19 (1984), p. 26; see David Tarler and Jane Cahill, “David, City of,” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), vol. 2, p. 55.

Kathleen M. Kenyon, “Excavations in Jerusalem, 1964,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 97 (1965), p. 13; and “Excavations in Jerusalem, 1965,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 98 (1966), p. 76.

See the discussion of Wall 4 in: Eilat Mazar and Benjamin Mazar, Excavations in the South of the Temple Mount: The Ophel of Biblical Jerusalem, Qedem 29 (1989), pp. 9–12, photo 13.

Shiloh, The Proto-Aeolic Capital and Israelite Ashlar Masonry, Qedem 11 (Jerusalem: Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology), pp. 19–21.

Kenyon, “Excavations in Jerusalem, 1962,” pp. 14–16 and pl. 8.

Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem, pl. 37. Compare the location of the Stepped-Stone Structure and Kenyon’s Site H on the map titled “Excavations and Archaeological Remains in the City of David,” published by Shiloh in City of David, pp. 40–41.

Kenyon, “Excavations in Jerusalem, 1964,” p. 13, pls. IVA-B. The photo that appears on p. 32 of Steiner’s article appeared in Kenyon’s article as pl. IVB. This photo is a close-up of an accompanying photo (pl. IVA in Kenyon’s article) that clearly shows the soil- and stone-terrace fills disappearing beneath the stones identified by Steiner as belonging to the stepped mantle.

Steiner, “The Jebusite Ramp of Jerusalem: The Evidence of the Macalister, Kenyon and Shiloh Excavations,” in Biblical Archaeology Today, 1990: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, June–July 1990, ed. Avraham Biran and Joseph Aviram (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1993), p. 587.

Tarler and Cahill, “David, City of,” p. 56; Shiloh, “Jerusalem,” in The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, ed. Ephraim Stern (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), vol. 2, p. 703.

For a complete jar with reed impressions on its rim like that published by Steiner but dated to the Late Bronze Age II by the accompanying pottery and artifacts, which include Egyptian scarabs, see Gershon Edelstein and Ianir Milevski, “The Rural Settlement of Jerusalem Re-evaluated: Surveys and Excavations in the Reph‘aim Valley and Mevasseret Yerushalyim,” PEQ 126 (1994), pp. 2–23.