[Text on the Left Side of the Marker]:
An elaborate ashlar-built palace (1) stood near the southern edge of the mound. A monumental entrance (2) - the only visible remains still standing - led to the courtyard (3). Like the northern palace, this edifice may have been built along the lines of a North Syrian bit hilani. One interpretation dated its construction to King Solomon (10th c. B.C.), whereas another one postdates it to Ahab's reign (9th c. B.C.).
[Text across the Bottom of the Marker]:
"All these were made of costly stones, hewn according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping (...). the foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits." (1 Kings 7: 9 - 10, describing Solomon's Palace in Jerusalem).
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