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Megiddo Stables or Storehouses?

I. The Debate Continues

The evidence was puzzling. There were these long, narrow rooms—three to a building (see illustrations). Each of the two side rooms was separated from the center room by a row of stone pillars, rather than a wall. Holes had been cut through the corners of some of the stone pillars. Between the stone pillars were squared-off blocks of stone into the top of which shallow basins had been cut (see illustration). Two complexes of these puzzling buildings were found at Megiddo. In all, parts of at least 14 such buildings were excavated (see reconstruction). In front of one of […]

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Footnotes

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The sole surviving participant in this discussion confirms that it took place, but declines to allow his name to be used.

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Sometimes, but not always, the absence of tethering holes can be explained on the ground that the pillar had not been preserved to a height at which the hole would appear. Pritchard suggests that the holes may have been used to secure drag ropes to haul the heavy pillars from the quarry to the building site. But the inconsistency of the appearance of the holes is as much a problem for this explanation as for the suggestion that they were tethering holes.