the Second Temple: Its Dimensions
Source: TTT
Ezra 6:3, 4
In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide, / with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.