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See Mishnah Kelim 1:8; Tosefta Kelim Baba Kamma 1:8; and Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, 3:4–5.

See the exchange between Rahamani, “Is the Temple Really Depicted upon Ossuaries from Jerusalem?” and Asher Grossberg, “Was the Portrayal of the Temple and Its Utensils upon Ossuaries Forbidden?” in Qadmoniot 27 (Jerusalem, 1994; in Hebrew), p. 142.

See Michael Avi-Yonah, “Oriental Elements in the Art of Palestine in Roman and Byzantine Periods,” Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine, X (1944), p. 147.

See Levy Y. Rahamani, “Jerusalem’s Tomb Monuments on Jewish Ossuaries,” Israel Exploration Journal 18 (1968), pp. 220–225, plates 21–24; The Decoration on Jewish Ossuaries as Representations of Jerusalem’s Tombs (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1977; Ph.D. dissertation), pp. 92–95; and “Ossuaries and Ossilegium (Bone-Gathering) in the Late Second Temple Period,” in Hillel Geva, ed., Ancient Jerusalem Revealed (Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society, 1994), pp. 191–205.

Jerusalem Talmud, Yoma 3:7, 40d.

Jerusalem Talmud, Yoma 1:5, 38d.

Josephus, Against Apion II, 119.

Mishnah Yoma 1:8.

Mishnah Middot 4.1–2 and Tamid 3.7–8.