There’s also some stuff Bar collects here, notably these Alalakh Tablets (although I know nothing about them): scielo.org.za/pdf/ote/v25n...

Have you looked at Pliny’s Natural History? There’s some references in book 33 section 48

A ritual squashing, if you will

So you’re pitching down kind of… gourds supper?

Sure thing

I could potentially do this if you have no other offers

Vit. Const. is listed

Aren’t these takes just the ideology of the texts which narrate the events? Samuel is not keen on kings (if I recall correctly) so no kings look good. Josephus is clear that the temple was fit for destruction by the Romans, but we don’t have to buy that it was a corrupt state from his evidence alone

I’m curious to see how they manage such a thing, but this may well be the way going forwards.