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The only publications of this site to date are Emmanuel Damati, “Hilkiah’s Palace,” in Between Hermon and Sinai, Memorial to Amnon, ed. Magen Broshi (Jerusalem: Yedidim, 1977), pp. 93–113 (in Hebrew), and Damati, “The Palace of Hilkiya,” Qadmoniot 15:4 (60), 1982, pp. 117–121 (in Hebrew). I am grateful to Dr. Hanan Eshel for bringing these references to my attention.

Nahman Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1980), p. 83. Also see Avigad, The Herodian Quarter in Jerusalem (Wohl Archaeological Museum) (Jerusalem: Keter, 1989).

NEAEHL, pp. 682–689. For Masada see Josephus, Jewish Wars 7.8.3, “for the king reserved the top of the hill, which was of a fat soil and better mould than any valley for agriculture.”

NEAEHL, pp. 622–623; Netzer, Greater Herodium, in Qedem 13 (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1981), pp. 10–30.

Netzer, Masada III, pp. 158–164, 578–580.

NEAEHL, pp. 687–688.

Hachlili, Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology, p. 33.

See Netzer, “The Hasmonean Palaces,” pp. 133–134; and Masada III: The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963–1965, Final Reports. The Buildings, Stratigraphy and Architecture (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1991), pp. 646–647.

Netzer, “The Hasmonean Palaces,” p. 135.

Netzer, “The Hasmonean Palaces,” p. 131.