ABSTRACT
Roman times. It survived in a fairly intact state when the English traveller, Pococke, sketched it in the mid-eighteenth century – Pococke: 1745: 135 & fig. XXII K & L.
6 Jones 1931 (1966): 428. 7 ibn Jubayr, Broadhurst (trans.) 1952: 271. 8 Josephus Jewish Antiquities 1999: 1, 6, 4 (145). 9 The best recent discussion, which reaches no firm conclusion, is in Pitard 1987: 7-10.
