Morning. The gates opened at dawn; the Tamid has been offered.
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On Rosh Hashanah the Temple offered, beyond the daily Tamid, a double Musaf, because 1 Tishrei is also the New Moon: two bulls, a ram, seven lambs and a goat for the month, then a bull, a ram, seven lambs and a goat for the festival (Num. 28:11-15; 29:1-6). The shofar was sounded in the Temple between two silver trumpets (Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 3:3), and the Levites sang Psalm 81 from the Duchan at the Musaf (Rosh Hashanah 30b). Rosh Hashanah is not a pilgrimage festival: the crowd came up from Jerusalem and Judea through the Hulda Gates and Robinson's stair, the sellers had packed up before the holy day, and the Roman cohort kept watch from the Antonia.
Reconstruction follows Mishnah Middot, Josephus and the archaeology of the Herodian platform; details are stylised.