Endnote 2 – Solomon’s Negev Defense Line Contained Three Fewer Fortresses

The Horvat Ritma fortress obviously conformed to Type B in Yohanan Aharoni’s classification of fortresses from the Iron Age in Aharoni, “Forerunners of the Limes: Iron Age Fortresses in the Negev,” Israel Exploration Journal 17 (1967), pp. 1–17, esp. p. 6.