c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.221

The Wars of the Jews 5.221

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.221

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

221But the superior part of the temple had no such little houses any further, because the temple was there narrower, and forty cubits higher, and of a smaller body than the lower parts of it. Thus we collect that the whole height, including the sixty cubits from the floor, amounted to a hundred cubits.