Abstract
A stone fragment bearing a Hebrew or Aramaic inscription was discovered in the debris piled up along the Early Roman period Stepped Street in the Tyropoeon Valley, on the west slope of the City of David hill. The inscription preserves part of a list mentioning proper names and sums of money. Similar lists are known from the Second Temple period, commonly interpreted as payment received or rendered from individuals. This is the first inscription to be found inside the city.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 83-88 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Atiqot |
| Volume | 110 |
| State | Published - Mar 2023 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
1 Prof. Esther Eshel, Bible Department, Bar Ilan University; Nahshon Szanton (PhD candidtate), Israel Antiquities Authority. 2 The excavations discussed here were undertaken in the Slepped Street excavations, along the course of the Tyropoeon Valley, within the confines of the City of David National Park. The excavations were conducted by N. Szanton, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and funded by the El’ad Foundation. We would like to thank the many people who have assisted in the excavations, including Ari Levy, Annette Landes-Nagar, Ayala Zilberstein, Sara Tal, Navot Rom, Meidad Shor, Michal Haber, Aimee Kessler, Oscar Bejarano, Ortal Chalaf, Tehillah Sadiel, Hannah Ripps, Rebecca Pfuester, Katharina Palmberger, Bracha Soiblman (area supervisors), Vadim Essman, Yaakov Shmidov, Or Zakaim, Alexander Wiegmann (surveying and plans), Nissim Mizrahi, Gil Berkovitz, Abraham Ajami, S. Rappaport and Yosef Carmeli (foremen), Assaf Peretz, Atalya Fadidah, Clara Amit and Shai Halevy (photography), Irina Lidsky-Reznikov (finds drawing), Avshalom Karasik (digital artifact drawing), as well as Joe Uziel and Moran Hagbi from Jerusalem District in the IAA. The article was written while Esther Eshel was head of the IIAS group, from Creation to Sinai 2017.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| El’ad Foundation | |
| Israel Antiquities Authority |
Keywords
- Aramaic
- Hebrew
- Jerusalem
- Jewish
- Second Temple period
- epigraphy
- ossuary
- payment