[236] Eleazar, son of Jacob, died about 130 A. D., and is quoted in _Middoth_, i. 9; Rabbi _Meier_ was about the same age (quoted _Midd._, ii. 2); Rabbi Eleazar, son of Zadok (_Midd._, iii. 8) died about 120 A. D. See Chiarini, “Talmud de Babylone,” 1831, pp. 105–7. Nothing is said above of the pretended description by Aristeas, as the work is well known to be a forgery. [237] “Wars,” V. iv. 1, translated from the Greek. [238] _Ibid._, iv. 2. [239] “Wars,” V. vi. 5, vii. 3. This postern may have been the Corner Gate; see back, chap. iv. p. 82. Distinguishing this from the Valley Gate, the city had twelve gates in all. [240] “Recovery of Jer.,” 1871, pp. 149, 299, 300; Bliss, “Excav. at Jer.,” 1898, p. 29, and plate iv. [241] “Ancient Jerusalem,” 1908, p. 297. [242] _Ibid._, p. 23. The remains of an old wall outside the Damascus Gate date only from the twelfth century, and will be noticed later. [243] One at south-west angle is 38 feet 9 inches; another at north-east angle 23 feet 8 inches long. [244] The drafts, and a border 3 inches wide on the block, are worked with a comb of eight teeth to the inch in two directions, making a criss-cross pattern. The remainder is finely finished with a point. [245] See Sir C. Warren’s plates accompanying the “Memoir” (Jerusalem vol.). [246] Text No. 1, _K’a ḳ’aḳ’at_, “carelessness of brand” (Lev. xix. 28). Text No. 2, _Le-’aṭṭ ṣ’an le-u_, “for covering, removal to it.” The other markings seem to be initials of words--_e.g._ _K_ twice for _K’a_ (“carelessness”); _Ṣ_ twice for _Ṣ’an_ (“removal”); and _Ḥ_ twice incised, perhaps for _ḥaṭa_ (“error”), or for _ḥaba_ (“hide”). Altogether ten out of twenty-two letters of the alphabet occur in these texts. [247] “Murray’s Bible Dict,” 1908, _s.v._ “Temple,” p. 876. [248] “Wars,” VI. v. 4. [249] “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., 1883, p. 223; “Recov. Jer.,” p. 219. [250] “Ant.,” XV. xi. 5, referring to the royal cloister. [251] “Ord. Survey Notes,” plate xvi. figs. 1, 2. [252] For plan, elevation, and details, see plates ii. and iii., de Vogüé, “Syrie Centrale.” For Greek texts, Waddington, “Inscrip. de la Syrie,” 1870, pp. 540, 541, Nos. 2364–2369. No. 2366 is specially valuable as having a bilingual in Aramaic on the base. This gives _’Abisheth_ (“dry region ”) as the local name--Greek Obeisa--and _M’aîru_ (“_God_-fearing”) for the Greek Moairos, with _Malikoth_ (“royal”) for Maleichathos. Waddington supposes that the temple may have been raised by Idumæans (“Ant.,” XVI. ix. 2, 3). We have already seen that a Malichus lived in the time of Herod. [253] “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jersualem vol., p. 423; Josephus, “Wars,” V. v. 2. He means that some of the warnings were in Latin, some in Greek. The expression in the inscription _mêthena allogenê_ is the same practically as the _médena allophulon_ (“no foreigner”) of Josephus.