Place of Trumpeting Inscription (detail)

This inscription, written in clear Hebrew (read from right to left), can be translated "For the place of trumpeting to . . . ." It was discovered at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount. Evidently it had been the upper course of the southwestern corner, and from this position a priest would have blown a trumpet to announce the beginning and end of the sabbath and festivals. Indeed, there is an indentation in the stone where the priest probably stood.