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Yohanan Aharoni, Investigations at Lachish: The Sanctuary and the Residency, Lachish V (Tel Aviv, 1975), pp. 38–40.

On this basis, Yadin argued that the Israelite fortress that Aharoni excavated at Arad, and which he dated to the Iron Age, was in fact Hellenistic. Yadin, “A Note on the Stratigraphy of Arad,” IEJ 15 (1965).

Cf. 1 Maccabees 4:36–38, 41–43, 47–53, 55–57, 60–61; Josephus Antiquities XII, VII, 6, secs. 317–319; XII, VII, 7, secs. 323–324 and 326, Jewish Wars I, I, 4, sec. 39.

Yigael Yadin implicitly recognized that Iron Age masonry sometimes had four margins and explicitly noted that the number of marginal drafts was not the “essential” difference between Iron Age masonry and later masonry. Yadin, “A Note on the Stratigraphy of Arad,” Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ), 15 (1965), p. 80.

Yoram Tsafrir, “The Desert Forts of Judea in Second Temple Times,” Qadmoniot Vol. VIII, Nos. 2–3 (30–31), 1975.

See Claude F. A. Schaeffer, “Fouilles et decouvertes des XVIIe et XIXe campagnes, 1954–1955,” Ugantica IV. Mission de Ras Shamra, Vol. XV. Institut Francis d’Archaeologie de Beyrouth. Bibliotheque archeologique et historique, Vol. LXXIV (Paris, 1962), XIII, cf. p. 107.

About the masonry: of Megiddo, cf. Laperrousaz, Syria 50 (1973), figure on pp. 396–397; of Tel Dan, Syria 56 (1979), figures on pp 112, 122 and Syria 59 (1982), figure on p. 233.

Laperrousaz, Syria 56 (1979), pp. 121–123; ibid 59 (1982), pp. 224–226.

Kenyon, Royal Cities, p. 40.

Maurice Dunand, “Byblos, Sidon, Jérusalem. Monuments apparentés des temps achéménides,” in Congress Volume, Rome 1968, Vetus Testamentum Supplement 17 (Leiden: Brill, 1969), pp. 64–70.