The Dead Sea Scrolls

22. Probably the oldest biblical document known: fragments from a third-century B.C. (Before Christ) scroll of Samuel
23. Fragments of a Fourth-Cave scroll of Exodus, written in the old, proto-Hebraic (‘Phoenician-type’) script
24. Part of a commentary on Psalm 37
25. The walls of the Qumran Monastery
26. South across the monastery, after the first short season’s excavations
27. The steps of a monastery cistern, cracked probably by the earthquake of 31 B.C.
28. Father De Vaux, Father Milik, and Gerald Lankester Harding
29. The north-western tower of the Qumran Monastery
30. A large and well-preserved cistern of the Qumran Monastery
31. The monastery pottery kiln
32. The Scriptorium of the Monastery, with remains of the plaster benches
33. The reconstructed writing tables and benches from the Scriptorium
34. Writing tables from the Scriptorium
35. Scriptorium ink-wells of terra-cotta and bronze
36. The monastery dining-hall
37. Domestic crockery preserved in a corner of the pantry
38. The pass above Qumran to the Buqei‘a
39. A papyrus letter from the administrators of Bēth Māshekô, found at Murabba‘at
40. Torn fragments from a scroll of Exodus, found in a Murabba‘at cave
41. A Murabba‘at marriage contract, written in a hitherto unknown Hebrew cursive script
42. Part of a scroll of a Greek translation of the Minor Prophets, from an unknown source