[433] “De Ædificiis Justiniani,” v. 6; Antoninus Mart., xxiii.
[434] Robinson, “Bib. Res.,” i. pp. 296, 384.
[435] Prof. Hayter Lewis, “Holy Places of Jer.,” 1888, pp. 74–9.
[436] The suggestion that the Bethlehem basilica is later than Constantine’s age seems to be only true in part. Much of the building is undoubtedly later. The mosaics date only from the twelfth century, and the roof of the transept from 1482. But the pillars of the basilica appear to be of Constantine’s age, and to be still in situ (see “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” 1883, vol. iii. p. 85).
[438] Theodorus (c. 530 A. D.), “Pretorium Pilati ... ibi est ecclesia Sanctæ Sophiæ”; Antoninus Mart., xxiii.
[439] Cyril of Scythopolis, “Vita Sabæ.”
[440] Ḳorân, xxx. 1.
[441] See Robinson, “Bib. Res.,” i. p. 387.
[442] Eutychius, “Annales,” ii.; John of Würzburg (c. 1160 A. D.); “Citez de Jhérusalem”; “Ord. Survey Notes,” p. 68. The pool is perhaps the Beth Mamil of the Talmud (Tal. Bab., Erubin, 51 b; Sanhed., 24 a; Bereshith, Rabḅa, ch. li.) though some pilgrims connect it with St. Babylas. The legend of the pious lion who buried these martyrs may have arisen from a corruption of the name Mamilla (“filled”) as M’aun-el-lawi (“den of the lion”). The cemetery near the pool is now Moslem, but the Ḳubbet el ’Abd, or “slave’s dome,” is an old Crusader’s tomb in its midst.