A gold bell is displayed at the offices of IAA, Israel's Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 24, 2011.
Posted on 07/25/2011 6:52:05 AM PDT by NYer
JERUSALEM – A tiny golden bell pulled after 2,000 years from an ancient sewer beneath the Old City of Jerusalem was shown Sunday by Israeli archaeologists, who hailed it as a rare find.
The orb half an inch in diameter has a small loop that appears to have been used to sew it as an ornament onto the clothes of a wealthy resident of the city two millennia ago, archaeologists said.
When Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority shook it Sunday, the faint metallic sound was something between a clink and a rattle.
The bell's owner likely "walked in the street, and somehow the golden bell fell from his garment into the drainage channel," Shukron said.
The relic was found last week. Shukron said it was the only such bell to be found in Jerusalem from the Second Temple period, and as such was a "very rare" find. The Second Temple stood from about 515 B.C. until A.D. 70.
The biblical Book of Exodus mentions tiny golden bells sewn onto the hem of the robes of Temple priests, along with decorative pomegranates. The artisans in charge of making the priestly clothes and implements, according to the Bible, "made bells of pure gold, and attached the bells around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates."
It was not know whether this bell was attached to a priestly garment. It is engraved with a pattern of circular channels starting at the top.
The bell was found inside the Old City walls, a few paces from the site of the Jewish Temples -- the sacred compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The compound is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the golden-capped Islamic shrine known as the Dome of the Rock.
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There’s a land beyond the river that we call the sweet forever
And we only reach that shore by faith, you see
Yes I want to see my Jesus
Shake His hand and have Him great us
When they ring those golden bells for you and me
Don’t you hear the bells a-ringin’
Can’t you hear the angels singin’
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When our days have known their number
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There’ll be no more stormy weather
We’ll live peacefully together
When they ring those golden bells for you and me
Don’t you hear the bells a-ringin’
Can’t you hear the angels singin’
It’s a glory hallelujah jubilee
In the far off great forever just beyond the shining river
When they ring those golden bells for you and me
When they ring those golden bells for you and me
Gold isn't the best metal to use for getting a musical sound.........I wonder why they chose gold?..........
Because the Bible required the Levitical Priests to wear garments with gold bells sown onto the hem:
Make pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn around the hem of the robe, with gold bells between them. The gold bells and the pomegranates are to alternate around the hem of the robe. Ex. 28:33-34
I know, but gold doesn’t make a ‘bell-like’ ringing sound. It just goes ‘klink’.......maybe it wasn’t suppose to make a ringing sound, just a lot of rattles when the priests walked.................
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Jews were never there, I'm sure the bell is from Mohammed and his flying horse.
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There’s probably dirt inside the thing...and it may well sound different when hung from a garment, vs. rung in the hand.
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