Editing Absalom (section)

===Memorial===
[[File:InsideAbsalom'sPillar.jpg|thumb|Two views of the burial chamber inside the so-called [[Tomb of Absalom]] in the [[Valley of Jehoshaphat]], [[Jerusalem]], which has no connection to biblical Absalom.]]

Absalom had erected a monument near Jerusalem to perpetuate his name:

{{blockquote|Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.|source=2 Sam 18:18<ref name="auto1"/> }}

An ancient monument in the [[Kidron Valley]] near the Old City of Jerusalem, known as the [[Tomb of Absalom]] or Absalom's Pillar and traditionally identified as the monument of the biblical narrative, is now dated by modern archeologists to the first century AD.{{sfn|Price|House|2017|p=334}} The Jewish Encyclopedia reports: "A tomb twenty feet high and twenty-four feet square, which late tradition points out as the resting-place of Absalom. It is situated in the eastern part of the valley of Kidron, to the east of Jerusalem. In all probability it is the tomb of [[Alexander Jannæus]] (Conder, in Hastings' ''Dict. Bible'', article "Jerusalem", p.&nbsp;597). It existed in the days of Josephus.<ref>"Antiquities" vii. 10, § 3</ref>{{sfn|Singer|1901|p=134}} However, archaeologists have now dated the tomb to the 1st century AD.{{sfn|Barkat |2003}} In a 2013 conference, Professor [[Gabriel Barkay]] suggested that it could be the tomb of [[Herod Agrippa I]], the grandson of [[Herod the Great]], based in part on the similarity to Herod's newly discovered tomb at [[Herodium]]. For centuries, it was the custom among passers-by—Jews, Christians and [[Islam|Muslims]]—to throw stones at the monument. Residents of Jerusalem would bring their unruly children to the site to teach them what became of a rebellious son.{{sfn|Vilnay|1999|p=113}}