[254] “Ant.,” VIII. iii. 9; “Wars,” V. v. 1, 2; “Ant.,” XV. xi. 3; “Wars,” I. xxi. 1. Josephus exaggerates the height of the walls, unless he means the command above the Kidron Valley. [255] Mishnah, _Middoth_, ii. 1. Abarbanel on this passage says, “The mountain was indeed much larger than 500 cubits would contain either way, but the sanctity did not extend outside this.” [256] See my “Handbook to Bible,” p. 371. _Tosephoth Yom Tob._ [257] The exact measures are: south wall of Ḥaram, 922 feet outside; east wall, 1,530 to the Roman north-east corner; west wall to Antonia, 1,601 feet; north wall, 1,042 feet. The north-east and south-west angles are right angles; the south-east angle measures 92½°. The old scarp on north side of the platform is about 1,180 feet north of the south wall. [258] Mishnah, _Middoth_, ii. 3: “All steps were half a cubit high.” [259] Josephus, “Wars,” V. ii. 5, VI. i. 8, ii. 7, iv. 1. The south-east part of the platform of the Dome of the Rock is supported probably by vaults. The entrance to these, on the east, was visible in 1881, though built up. [260] Mishnah, _Middoth_, i. 6–9. [261] _Ibid._, i. 4. On north the gates _Niṣúṣ_ (“projecting”), _Ḳorban_ (“gift”), and _Môḳed_ (“hearth”), enumerated from east to west; on the south _Dalaḳ_ (“burning”), _Ḳorban_ (“gift”), and _Mim_ (“waters”). The chamber of the draw-well (_gulah_) was on south near the last (v. 4). See _Tamid_, i. 4. [262] For plan and details, see Constantine l’Empereur, _Codex Middoth_, 1630; and Conder’s “Handbook to the Bible” (3rd edit. 1882), pp. 359–86. For model (Religious Tract Society), see Frontispiece. [263] _Pal. Expl. Fund Quarterly_, April 1903, p. 126, Oct. 1903, p. 326. [264] Acts iii. 2. [265] _Middoth_, i. 3; “Ant.,” XV. xi. 5. The Bible mentions the _Parbharîm_ or “suburbs” (2 Kings xxiii. 11), close to the Temple. Standard records of the greater and lesser cubit were kept at the Gate Shushan (Mishnah, _Tohoroth_, xvii. 9). [266] “Ant.,” XV. xi. 7. [267] Sir C. Wilson, “Ord. Survey Notes,” 1864, p. 60; “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., pp. 203–6, 270. [268] Mishnah, _Middoth_, i. 2; _Yoma_, i. 8, ii. 2; _Tamid_, i. 2-iii. 8, vii. 1. [269] _Yoma_, iv. 1, v. 2; _Sukkah_, v. 1–3; _Parah_, iii. 2–5, 11; _Sotah_, i. 5. [270] Mishnah, _Sotah_, vii. 8. [271] Ezek. viii. 16. [272] “Ant.,” XVII. vi. 2; “Wars,” I. xxxiii. 3. [273] Mishnah, _Sheḳalîm_, i. 3, 6, 7, iii. 2, vi. 4, 5. [274] “Ant.,” XV. viii. 5, xi. 3, 4, 7, XVIII. iv. 3; “Wars,” I. iii. 3, v. 4, xxi. 1, II. xvi. 5, V. iv. 2, v. 8, ix. 2, VI. i. 5, 8, ii. 5, 9. [275] “Ant.,” XIII. v. 11; “Wars,” V. iv. 1. The Rabbis (Tosiphta, _Sanhed._, chap. xiv.) mention an “upper” and a “lower” market. [276] “Ant.,” XVII. x. 2, 3; “Wars,” II. iii. 1, xvii. 6, 8, V. iv. 3, v. 8, VI. viii. 1, VII. i. 1; Tacitus, “Hist.,” v. 11. [277] Sir C. Wilson, “Ord. Survey Notes,” p. 46; “Mem. Survey West Pal.,” Jerusalem vol., pp. 267–70. [278] “Wars,” I. xxi. 1.