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Mazar’s team also discovered that behind the monastery’s rough walls were the smoothly dressed stones of Herodian-era structures. According to Mazar, the inscription and the Herodian remains indicate that the Sanhedrin, the supreme Jewish court, was located here. Mazar’s granddaughter, Eilat, who worked on the excavation and is now publishing the dig’s final report, describes the monastery in the accompanying article.