[286] See Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1887, p. 161, ff. Dr. Schick calls it an amphitheater, but it is simply a theater of the Greek type.
[287] Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XV, xi, 2.
[288] Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XX, ix, 7.
[289] Ibid., XV, xi, 3.
[290] Above it was a chamber 30 cubits high.
[291] Josephus, Wars of the Jews, V, v, 6.
[292] See Josephus, Wars of the Jews, V, v, and the Mishna tract Middoth for the authority for this description. For a fuller description, see G. A. Smith, Jerusalem, II, Chapter XVIII.
[293] See Chapter VI, [p. 131].
[294] That is, the “Pool of Israel.”
[295] Wars of the Jews, V, iv, 2.