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DNA Analysis Sheds New Light on Oldest Profession at Ashkelon

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Footnotes

1.

See Avraham Negev, “Understanding the Nabateans,” BAR 14:06.

Endnotes

1.

The results were announced to the scientific world in Marina Faerman, et al., “DNA analysis reveals the sex of infanticide victims,” Nature 385, January 16, 1997.

2.

R.B. Ward, “Women in Roman Baths,” Harvard Theological Review 85 (1992), p. 134.

3.

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 744, translated in Naphtali Lewis, Life in Egypt Under Roman Rule (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 54.

4.

See Excavations at the City of David, 1978–1985, vol. 4, ed. Donald T. Ariel and Alon De Groot, eds. Qedem 35 (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1996), p. 151.

5.

Excavations of the City of David, 1978–1985, vol. 4, ed. Donald T. Ariel and Alon De Groot, Qedem 35 (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1996), p. 32.

6.

Ariel and de Groot, Excavations in the City of David, p. 105.