Posted on 08/16/2011 7:20:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A marble statue of Hercules from the second century CE has been uncovered in Israel in excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting at Horvat Tarbenet...
The hero Hercules, of Greek and Roman mythology, was born in Thebes. He is the son of the god Zeus and the mortal Alcmene, a woman from Electryon. Hercules is considered the strongest man in the world, a symbol of power, courage and superhuman strength; one of the most famous legendary heroes of ancient Greece who battled the forces of the netherworld on behalf of the Olympian gods...
Depictions of the labors of Hercules are among the most common themes in ancient art and the statue that was discovered portrays Hercules' first task.
Horvat Tarbenet is located in the Jezreel Valley, three kilometers northeast of Kefar Barukh, and four kilometers northwest of Afula. Tarbenet was a Jewish settlement in the third century CE, which is mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud (Megilla 4, 5)...
...at the site remains were discovered, among them dwellings, a built well and an installation that included a large pool which was probably part of a Roman bathhouse. Benches were found on two sides of the pools.
The well, which is 2.90 m in diameter and in excess of 4 m deep, had a saqiye type pumping installation constructed above its opening. A drainage channel that extended as far as the pool was built alongside the well. It seems that the well and channel were meant to supply water for the pool.
After the pool was no longer being used it was filled in with a layer of earth that contained numerous potsherds, an abundance of broken glass vessels and the marble fragment of the statue of Hercules...
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I just translate “CE” to Christian Era and “BCE” as Before Christian Era. :)
I'm cool with that for as long as the other guy's gripping his own.
Little fellow.
We used CE/BCE in Catholic school textbooks twenty years ago.
Doesn’t CE = Christian Era?
One source says this:
While the use of the phrase "Common Era" has existed for hundreds of years, only recently have politically correct liberals attempted to replace all instances of 'AD' with 'CE.' The original use of 'CE' was to avoid the common practice of countries basing their dates on when their rulers reached power or were born, i.e. the "regal era" from the birthdate of Jesus Christ, which belonged to all men "the common era." While use of "Common Era" attempts to erase recognition for the Christian basis of the calendar, there are no similar attempts to erase non-Christian religious names from the calendar, such as the days of the week named after Norse gods. Numerous texts, particularly schoolbooks, have replaced "B.C./A.D." with "Common Era" symbols over the past decade.
LOL. I know, but I don’t have to accept the secularization of the calendar. They didn’t consult me about the change, so..
CE = Christian Era and BCE = Before the Christian Era
They’re essentially accepting Jesus’ birth as the demarcation, but refusing to use AD and BC. Two can play at that game.
“The ‘C’ in CE and BCE does not stand for ‘Christian.’”
It does in ModelBreaker’s home :)
Roger that. Yeoow.
Yes, I suppose we can ignore “them.” :-)
It’s too bad “they” still get to our kids in public school.
Magnificent! Thanks Civ
In contemporary scholaeship,Art History, BC = before the Common Era CE = Common Era
This is a new politically correct invention of post-Christian Europe, where BC or AJC meant Before Christ and AD , Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord.
This find and article are from Israel where archaeologists logically use CE and BCE.
In the US , usage us mixed.
“It’s too bad “they” still get to our kids in public school.”
Not mine.
;’) Laws? Wrestlers don’t need no steenking laws!
(imagine that in Latin)
:’) They painted their statues, just as lawn dwarfs are today, but it’s been long enough that the paint wore off.
He had two thousand years to kill. What would you expect him to do?
That is SOOOOOOOO wrong!
At least the one guy is looking away...
It’s truly a marble of the ancient world.
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