Bordeaux Pilgrim, Travels (Itinerarium Burdigalense) 591.4; see John Wilkinson, Egeria’s Travels (London: SPCK, 1971), p. 157. The cave below al-Sakhra also begins to be mentioned in the early Christian period, being first recorded in the Breviarius 6 of the early sixth century C.E. See Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades (Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1977), p. 61.