Biblical Archaeology Review

Charles Warren, Plans, Elevations, Sections, Ec. Shewing the Results of the Excavations at Jerusalem, 1867–70, pl. VI (London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 1884).

August Kuemmel, Karte der Materialien zur Topographie des Alten Jerusalem (Leipzig: Deutschen Vereins zur Erforschung Palästinas, 1904).

See Asher Kaufman, “Where the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood,” BAR 09:02.

See Magen Broshi, “Evidence of Earliest Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Comes to Light in Holy Sepulchre Church,” BAR 03:04.

See Dan Gill, “How They Met—Geology Solves Puzzle of Hezekiah’s Tunnelers,” BAR 20:04.

Whitelam likes to call this ancient Canaanite civilization Palestinian civilization. He relies on the fact that the land where the ancient Canaanites lived is often referred to as Palestine. The use of Palestine for the land inhabited by the Canaanites is, of course, an anachronism that scholars use, even though there would be no Palestine for more than a millennium, as the least unsatisfactory designation of this geographical area during its entire ancient history.

See J.-B. Frey, Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum I (Rome: Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, 1936), pp. 173, 327, 652, 723, 25.

The finding and restoration of the fragment are reported by Dr. Shokhin in Report no. 617, The Restoration Journal (1951, in Russian), and by S. F. Strezheletsky in Report no. 1301.I, The Excavations at Chersonesus. Diary of the Excavations (1950, in Russian [handwritten]), with the author’s drawings.

G.D. Belov was the chief archaeologist of the entire site, including the basilicas and the neighborhood around the basilicas, from 1931 to 1961.