Shalom.....
ooopss nevermind, wrong seal...
Posted on 09/27/2005 3:55:29 PM PDT by SmithL
Yeah, it's a good thing Arafat died before this became known or they would really holler. Oh, yeah. And i bet the Palestinians will be more careful of their trash in the future.ha!
The seal was found amidst thousands of tons of rubble discarded by Wakf officials at city garbage dumps six years ago, following the Islamic Trust's unilateral construction of an mosque at an underground compound of the Temple Mount known as the Solomon's Stables.
Hebrew language, Jews, temple in Jerusalem 2600+ years ago..... and the Islamo-fascists are more determined than ever to commit historical and cultural genocide.
Oh wow! I would love to be over there sifting thru the rubble.
Says "a large segment of a marble pillar's shaft," was found.
How do you think the original demolition crews did not find this? They had to intentionally ignore what they were digging through.
We all know they had to be interested in sifting through material as they dug it out, after all, they were digging on the Temple Mount. They had to have made a decision that the demolition was going to take place no matter what was found.
Wait a little... "The 2,600 year old artifact..." is "the first of its kind from the time of King David"? Wouldn't it have to be about 3000 yrs old for that?
Shalom.....
ooopss nevermind, wrong seal...
No doubt he means King David's Temple. Poor editing probably. But in these times, who knows what mainstream archaeologists believe about Biblical timelines?
Good point, although strictly speaking David designated and acquired the site, accumulated material and made plans for the Temple, which Solomon later carried out.
Makes me wonder even more about the 'expert' here...
ping for ME interest
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Hmmm...
Quite a coincidence that this turns up about the same time as
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_paleojudaica_archive.html#112288585502341362
MORE ON THE CITY OF DAVID EXCAVATION in the New York Times:
Digging Deep for Proof of an Ancient Jewish Capital
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: August 5, 2005
JERUSALEM, Aug. 4 - An Israeli archaeologist says she has uncovered in East Jerusalem what may be the fabled palace of the biblical King David...
...Ms. Mazar believes she has found a riposte: a large public building, with at least some pottery of the time, and a bulla, or governmental seal, of an official - Jehucal (or Jucal), son of Shelemiah, son of Shevi - who is mentioned at least twice in the Book of Jeremiah.
Three questions. First, is the name on the bulla Jehucal (according to Maariv) or Yehudi (according to the New York Sun)? I assume it's the former, but given the Sun report it would have been helpful to have clarification. Second, where does the name "Shevi" come from? The book of Jeremiah doesn't give Jehucal's grandfather's name and according to the Maariv article the grandfather's name on the bulla was "Nubi." Is Shevi a correction of the earlier report? (Just how well-preserved is this bulla?) Third, what is a late-seventh-century bulla doing in a tenth-century building? Was the bulla excavated in the building or was it just found in its vicinity? What is the stratigraphy of the building? Was it still in use in the seventh century?
The building can be reasonably dated by the pottery found above and below it. Ms. Mazar found on the bedrock a large floor of crushed limestone, indicating a large public space. The floor and fill above it contain pottery from Iron Age I of the 12th to 11th centuries B.C., just before David conquered Jerusalem.
Above that, Ms. Mazar found the foundations for this monumental building, with large boulders for walls that are about 2 yards thick and extend at least 30 yards. In one corner was pottery of Iron Age II, the 10th to 9th centuries, roughly the time of the united kingdom.
Unfortunately, Mr. Mazar said, she found no floor. It is clear the building was constructed after the pottery underneath it, but less clear exactly how much later...
Muslims, in their never-ending denials of Jewish presence on the Temple Mount, hauled off truckload after truckload of archaeological treasures. Thanks to their stupidity, what used to be inaccessible evidence, is now a digger's delight.
The contempt they have shown for Jewish artifacts is appalling, and who knows what has been lost and destroyed in the process. The "blame" for any discovery, however, falls squarely on the idiots who couldn't wait to dispose of the evidence.
What Waqf or Pali official (Arafat?) didn't think this one through? As Bugs would say, "What a maroon!"
Doesn't matter.
Mohammed was taken on a horse...no....half man...no half goat....to uhh...Mecca...err...Las Vegas..or...JERUSALEM!...yeah, that's the ticket.
Erlanger and other NYT slime are tracked at
http://www.timeswatch.org/
Come to think of it, I wish FR would ban all posting from the NYT except from sources like timeswatch.org or other NYT-refuters.
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