Biblical Archaeology Review

See, for example, Nina Jidejian, The Story of Lebanon in Pictures (Araya, Lebanon: Imprimerie Catholique, 1985), pp. 150–151.

Diodorus, Bk. 1.83.2.

For a general survey of ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean healing deities, such as Gula and Asklepios, see Hector Avalos, “Illness and Health Care in Ancient Israel: A Comparative Study of the Role of the Temple (Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1991), chs. 1–2. Dr. Avalos translated the neo-Assyrian text.

Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historia (Library of History), transl. C.H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1933), Book 1.83.2; 84.5; 83.5–6.

After the original carvings on both sides of the ivory comb were made, the edges of the comb were, for some unknown reason, pared off. Dr. Abbas Alizadeh, associate director of the Leon Levy expedition, has restored the motifs on the basis of contemporary parallels from ancient Persia in the drawings which he produced. Dr. A. Eran staff metrologist, identified the weight as one karsha, a Persian unit equal to 10 shekels.

Personal communication from Professor Richard Frye.

Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984), pp. 45ff.

Personal communication from Professor Amihai Mazar.

Greek Anthology, transl. W.R. Patton, Loeb Classical Library (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917), vol. 2, p. 117, poem 211.

Pompeius Trogus-Justin, Book XIX. i.10.