Endnote 22 – Queen Helena’s Jerusalem Palace—In a Parking Lot?

Maximiliam Kon, Kivre Ha-Melachim: nefesh malkey beit hadayav (Jerusalem: Dvir, 1947), pp. 71–74 [Hebrew]; see Rachel Hachlili, Jewish Funerary Customs, Practices, and Rites in the Second Temple Period, Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 94 (Leiden: Brill, 2005), p. 168; “The meaning of the name is not clear. Scholars identified the inscription with Queen Helene of Adiabene … ” Fitzmyer and Harrington have read the dalet in Tsadah/Tsadan as a resh, thus reading, Tsarah/Tsaran; Joseph A. Fitzmyer and Daniel J. Harrington. A Manual of Palestinian Aramaic, Biblica et Orientalia 34 (Rome: Bible Institute Press, 1978), p. 243.