c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.205

The Wars of the Jews 5.205

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.205

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

205for its height was fifty cubits; and its doors were forty cubits; and it was adorned after a most costly manner, as having much richer and thicker plates of silver and gold upon them than the other. These nine gates had that silver and gold poured upon them by Alexander, the father of Tiberius.