Footnote 6 – How To Connect Dead Sea Scroll Fragments

Precisely when the posts were introduced we do not know. But a fragment of a disc presumably attached to a post was found in the synagogue at Ein Gedi, dated to the third to sixth centuries A.D. See Hershel Shanks, Judaism in Stone (New York: Harper & Row/Washington, D. C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1979), p. 134.