See Ehud Netzer, “The Hasmonean Palaces in Eretz-Israel,” in Biblical Archaeology Today, 1990: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Biblical Archaeology (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1993), pp. 126–136; Ephraim Stern, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (NEAEHL), 4 vols. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), vol. 2, pp. 682–691; Rachel Hachlili, Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology in the Land of Israel (Leiden: Brill, 1988), p. 10.