[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.