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Bargil Pixner, An Essene Quarter on Mount Zion? (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1976; abstract from Studia Hierosolymitana I: Studi archeologici in onore di P. Bellarmino Bagatti [Jerusalem, 1976], pp. 245–286).

For more on the wedding contract, see Amos Kloner and Esther Eshel, “An Aramaic Ostracon of an Edomite Marriage Contract from Maresha, Dated 176 B.C.E.,” Israel Exploration Journal 46:1–2 (1996), pp. 1–22.
The first line of the contract indicates the document was written in the Seleucid year 136 (dating from the Hellenistic king Seleucus’ foundation of a dynasty, based in Syria, in 312 B.C.E.) or 176 B.C.E. The month Sivan, also mentioned in line 1, corresponds to June.

See Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, Hamlets’ Mill (1969); and David Ulansey, “Solving the Mithraic Mysteries,” BAR 20:05.

The difference between fakes and forgeries has recently been defined as follows: “A fake is a genuine article, if of somewhat mediocre character, that has been made more interesting and desirable by deceitful reworking. A forgery, as in the matter of banknotes, is an article made newly and wholly for the purpose of deception.” Oliver Watson, “Fakes & Forgeries of Islamic Pottery,” in the Victoria and Albert Museum Album, 1985.

Peters and Thiersch, Painted Tombs.

John P. Peters and Hermann Thiersch, Painted Tombs in the Necropolis of Marissa (London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 1905).

Eleazar D. Oren and U. Rappaport, “The Necropolis of Maresha-Beth Govrin,” Israel Exploration Journal 34 (1984), pp. 114–153.

Kloner and O. Hess, “A Columbarium in Complex 21 at Maresha,” Atiqot 17 (1985), pp. 122–133.

Kloner, “A Unique Hellenistic Juglet from Maresha (Marissa/Tell Sandahannah),” The Third Scientific Conference on Hellenistic Pottery 1991, ed. St. Drougou et al. (Athens, 1994), vol. 1, pp. 269–271, vol. 2, p. 218.

Kloner and Nahum Sagiv, “The Olive Presses of Hellenistic Maresha, Israel,” in Oil and Wine Production in the Mediterranean Area, ed. Marie-Claire Amouretti and J.-P. Brun, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique, Supplement 26 (1993), pp. 119–136.