Work was directed by Shimon Gibson, James D. Tabor, Rafael Y. Lewis, and Steve Patterson. For a preliminary study on the mug and its discovery, see Shimon Gibson, “New Excavations on Mount Zion in Jerusalem and an Inscribed Stone Cup/Mug from the Second Temple Period,” in David Amit, Orit Peleg-Barkat, and Guy D. Steibel, eds., New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region (Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2010), pp. *32–*43.