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ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS AND SYMBOLS DISCOVERED ON RITUAL BATH DATING TO THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
05AUG2015
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AN EXTRAORDINARY FIND THAT HAS FIRED ARCHAEOLOGISTS’ IMAGINATION WAS DISCOVERED ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO IN THE ARNONA QUARTER DURING A ROUTINE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSPECTION BY THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NURSERY SCHOOL BEING BUILT AT THE INITIATIVE OF THE JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY.
In the excavation an impressive ritual bath (miqwe) dating to the time of the Second Temple (first century CE) was exposed inside an underground cave. An anteroom, flanked by benches, led to the bath. A winepress was excavated alongside the ritual bath.
The walls of the miqwe were treated with ancient plaster and were adorned with numerous wall paintings and inscriptions, written in mud, soot and incising. The inscriptions are Aramaic and written in cursive Hebrew script, which was customary at the end of the Second Temple period. Among the symbols that are drawn are a boat, palm trees and various plant species, and possibly even a menorah.
According to Royee Greenwald and Alexander Wiegmann, excavation directors on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “There is no doubt that this is a very significant discovery Such a concentration of inscriptions and symbols from the Second Temple period at one archaeological site, and in such a state of preservation, is rare and unique and most intriguing”. At this point in the research the inscriptions are a mystery. Some of the inscriptions might indicate names.
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ARCHAEOLOGYLATEST NEWS
ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS AND SYMBOLS DISCOVERED ON RITUAL BATH DATING TO THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
05AUG2015
HERITAGEDAILY0 0 863 1
Credit : IAA
AN EXTRAORDINARY FIND THAT HAS FIRED ARCHAEOLOGISTS’ IMAGINATION WAS DISCOVERED ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO IN THE ARNONA QUARTER DURING A ROUTINE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSPECTION BY THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NURSERY SCHOOL BEING BUILT AT THE INITIATIVE OF THE JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY.
In the excavation an impressive ritual bath (miqwe) dating to the time of the Second Temple (first century CE) was exposed inside an underground cave. An anteroom, flanked by benches, led to the bath. A winepress was excavated alongside the ritual bath.
The walls of the miqwe were treated with ancient plaster and were adorned with numerous wall paintings and inscriptions, written in mud, soot and incising. The inscriptions are Aramaic and written in cursive Hebrew script, which was customary at the end of the Second Temple period. Among the symbols that are drawn are a boat, palm trees and various plant species, and possibly even a menorah.
According to Royee Greenwald and Alexander Wiegmann, excavation directors on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “There is no doubt that this is a very significant discovery Such a concentration of inscriptions and symbols from the Second Temple period at one archaeological site, and in such a state of preservation, is rare and unique and most intriguing”. At this point in the research the inscriptions are a mystery. Some of the inscriptions might indicate names.
Continue reading at:
Ancient Inscriptions and Symbols Discovered on Ritual Bath Dating to the Second Temple Period HeritageDaily - Heritage Archaeology News?
