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Posted on 09/15/2023 10:07:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A Customs Inscription from the Lycian civilization, located in Andriake port in the southern province of Antalya's Demre district, tells about ancient times...
The Ancient City of Andriake is 5 km away from the Demre district of Antalya. It was one of the most important ports of Lycia, such as Phaselis and Patara, in ancient times. It is known as the port of the Ancient City of Myra and a settlement formed by it, rather than being a separate city.
The inscription, discovered in the vicinity of the largest Granarium in the Mediterranean, named after Emperor Hadrian (Horrea Hadriani), contains information about the Lycian Union Customs Laws, port usage rules and taxes, and those who brought goods through maritime trade.
The Lycian League was founded with 23 cities along the Mediterranean's Teke Peninsula. The league, known as history's first democratic union, served as a model for modern democratic systems. Patara (the capital), Xanthos, Pinara, Olympos, Myra, and Tlos were among the major cities of this federation...
While various structures such as the Granarium, Agora, baths, port shops, honorary monuments, five churches, shipyards were mostly unearthed during the excavations, the customs inscription is the focus of this year's work.
Takmer clarified the dating of the monument by determining that C. Licinius Mucianus, who is known to have been the Governor of the Lycian province during the reign of Emperor Nero, was mentioned in the third line...
The inscription contains articles of law on how the port will be used, how the taxes will be paid and what goods will be shipped.
(Excerpt) Read more at arkeonews.net ...
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Still holding that shipment? Can’t get through Customs without proper documents.
Trouble was, the documents were so heavy they tended to capsize the ships.
Heh, with documents like that there’s no room left on board for the goods.
Amazing though, you could put a million times as much text on a thumb drive now.
Frustrated Captain: “You act like these port rules are written in stone!”
Port Officer: “We’ll have the quarry send you a copy.”
Back then it was inhabited by civilized people.
του δε ιησου γεννηθεντος εν βηθλεεμ της ιουδαιας εν ημεραις ηρωδου του βασιλεως ιδου μαγοι(Magi) απο ανατολων(Anatolia) παρεγενοντο εις ιεροσολυμα (Mat 2:1 Textus Receptus)Thus, the centuries-later translators did not get the sense of the first-century Koine Greek, in that Matthew/Levi was pointing out the specific region from which these scholarly historians came, NOT the azimuth of their origins, as the English translators wrongly assumed (adding the definite article to the anarthrous name of a land). Even Jerome, the fourth-century Latin translator assumed that is was on the easterly direction, "ab oriente" (in English "from the Orient"), a very indefinite term contrary to the tendency of the Gospel-writers to be very specific in their factual records. So, where did the Magi come from? ndia? China? Manchuria? Japan? (per KJV and Vulgate).
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men(Magi) fromtheeast(Anatolia) to Jerusalem, (Mt. 2:1 KJV)
No, they came from the country Anatolia, as reported in the article on the monument cited in this thread, a land north of Bethlehem, from the same area, Padanaram, a portion of the region whose name was Anatolia; the same area from which the very affluent Abram migrated to Canaan. Padanaram was the place whose history with Noah and his God went back to Mount Ararat, the place where Noah put his foot on land after the Great Deluge.
Millions, or billions, probably.
Wow! That is absolutely gorgeous.
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