Endnote 16 – Not a Country Villa

De Vaux, Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls, p. 12. The similarity between locus 77 at Qumran and the triclinium at Hilkiah’s palace is especially striking; both share the same long, narrow plan, the square pillars at one end to support the roof, the partition running between the walls, and the pillars that separated one end of the hall from the rest of the interior.