Footnote 1 - Machaerus: A Palace-Fortress with Multiple Mikva’ot
Győző Vörös, “Machaerus: Where Salome Danced and John the Baptist Was Beheaded,” BAR, 38:05
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Footnote 1 - Strata: Do You Remember What This Is?
Mendel Kaplan and Yigal Shiloh, “Digging in the City of David,” BAR, 5:04.
Footnote 1 - First Person: Should These Looters Go to Jail?
See Eitan Klein, Uri Davidovich, Roi Porat, Amir Ganor and Micka Ullman, Archaeological Views: “In the Cave of the Skulls—Again,” p. 18.
Footnote 1 - Pontius Pilate
Authors
Claude Doumet-Serhal (“Sidon—Canaan’s Firstborn,”) is Director of the British Museum excavations in Sidon, Lebanon. She is a Special Assistant to the British Museum and an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, as well as the founder and editor of the magazine Archaeology and History in Lebanon.
Queries & Comments
Strata: New Dig Reports: Faience from Tell Atrib
Strata: Cartoon Caption Contest
“The wolf couldn’t make it. We’re here to lie down with the lamb.”
—Joseph Lavelle, Moscow, Pennsylvania
Pontius Pilate: Recalled and Recycled
In 1961, the Italian archaeological mission found a curious limestone block while excavating the Herodian theater in the southern part of ancient Caesarea. Measuring 32 by 27 inches, it was embedded in a staircase. To everyone’s surprise, the stone bore a neatly engraved four-line inscription containing the name of Pontius Pilate and his title as the prefect of Judea.
Archaeological Views: In the Cave of the Skulls—Again
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