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Jerusalem Tombs from the Days of the First Temple

A few hundred yards from Damascus Gate and over the wall from the Garden Tomb, magnificent burial cave lies beneath a Dominican monastery.

By Gabriel Barkay, Amos Kloner

Damascus Gate, the most important entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City, fairly bustles with activity inside and out. Arab men in their robes and keffiyehs; Arab women in long embroidered dresses; priests from a dozen different Christian denominations, Eastern and Western, each with his distinctive gown or collar or hat; Orthodox Jews with long beards and black garb walking to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount to pray; young Israelis; and tourists from everywhere—all mingle and brush shoulders. As a dozen languages blend together, honking taxis and braying mules create a cacophony. Odors typical of Near Eastern bazaars—sweet […]

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Footnotes

1.

See “On the Shorter Inscription From the ‘Tomb of the Royal Steward,’” David Ussishkin, BASOR 196 (1969), p. 18.

2.

Excavations and Surveys in Israel, Vol. 1, 1982 (Jerusalem Israel Ministry of Education and Culture, Department of Antiquities and Museums).

3.

See Magen Broshi, “Estimating the Population of Ancient Jerusalem,” BAR 04:02.

4.

See Gabriel Barkay, “The Divine Name Found in Jerusalem,” BAR 09:02.