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Robert Balgarnie Young Scott, in “Weights and Measures of the Bible,” The Biblical Archaeologist vol. 22 (1959), pp. 22–40, fixes it at 44.5 cm.

R. P. S. Hubbard, in “The Topography of Ancient Jerusalem,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly vol. 98 (1966), pp. 130–154, fixes it at 44.65 cm.

Ehud Netzer, in “Ritual Baths of the Second Temple Period at Jericho,” Qadmoniot vol. 11 (1978), pp 54–59 (in Hebrew), presents data that yield a measurement of 45 cm.

C. Warren and C. R. Conder, The Survey of Western Palestine, Jerusalem (Palestine Exploration Fund: London, 1884), p. 241, for 40.6 cm, and Y. M. Toqachinsqi, The Holy City and the Temple, part 4, (Jerusalem, 1970), p. 6, for 66 cm [in Hebrew].

M. de Vogüé, Le Temple de Jerusalem (Nobles & Baudry: Paris, 1864), p. 105.

In my article in Ariel, No. 43, p. 93, the height is given as seven meters, so quoted by C. Schick. The height given here was determined from aerial survey and should be correct.

Our Work in Palestine, issued by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund (Bentley: London, 1873), p. 137.

For recent appraisals of this choice of site, see M. Avi-Yonah, Jerusalem Revealed (Israel Exploration Society: Jerusalem, 1975), p. 13, and B. Bagatti, Recherches sur le Site du Temple de Jerusalem (I–VII siecle), Publications du Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, collectio minor 22 (Franciscan Printing Press Jerusalem, 1979), pp. 26–31.

A summary with source references is given by W. Robertson Smith in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., vol. 23, p. 169 (1888).

Kathleen M. Kenyon, The Bible and Recent Archaeology (British Museum: London, 1978), pp. 85–6.

J. L. Porter, Jerusalem, Bethany, and Bethlehem (Nelson: London, 1887), p. 52.

The terms Temple Mount and Temple area, as used in my other publications, are synonymous.