Josephus, writing about the First Jewish-Roman War (66-70 CE), uses the Graecised form Ophlas, and places it slightly higher up the eastern ridge from the First Temple-period Ophel, touching the eastern cloister of the temple (Jewish Wars, V, iv, 2 ) and in the context of the temple and the parts thereto adjoining, ... and the ... 'Valley of the Cedron' (Jewish Wars, V, iv, 1 ). This takes us to the area of the saddle right next to the southeast corner of Herod's Temple Mount.