c. AD 94

J. AJ 15.410

The Antiquities of the Jews 15.410

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

15.410

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

4105. Now in the western quarters of the enclosure of the temple there were four gates; the first led to the king’s palace, and went to a passage over the intermediate valley; two more led to the suburbs of the city; and the last led to the other city, where the road descended down into the valley by a great number of steps, and thence up again by the ascent for the city lay over against the temple in the manner of a theater, and was encompassed with a deep valley along the entire south quarter;