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2,000-year-old inscription spells Jerusalem as Israel does today
Art Daily ^ | Thursday, October 11, 2018 | Agence France-Presse

Posted on 10/11/2018 12:25:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Israel unveiled Tuesday a stone pillar engraved with an ancient inscription showing that the spelling of Jerusalem in its present-day Hebrew form was already in common use some 2,000 years ago.

During construction work in February in Jerusalem, archaeologists unearthed the pillar with the inscription "Hananiah son of Dodalos of Jerusalem," written in Aramaic with Hebrew letters.

The Hebrew spelling of the city -- pronounced Yerushalayim -- is the same today.

The stone was originally part of a Jewish potter's village dating to the second century BC near Jerusalem.

The site, now inside the city, became the Roman 10th Legion's workshop in the early second century AD for ceramic building material.

It was the same legion that destroyed Jerusalem and the second Jewish temple in 70 AD.

The stone was reused as part of a row of columns along a basin.

(Excerpt) Read more at artdaily.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: aramaic; archaeology; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem
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To: BobL
Good thing you're not an archaeologist or historian.

21 posted on 10/12/2018 12:03:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Vermont Lt
Aramaic was adopted by the Persian Empire as its official tongue, which looks odd now, but resulted in Aramaic being spoken by more people than perhaps any language in the world up to that time (remembering that China's languages are many, and India was divided among at least four or five different ethnic groups). Hebrew and Aramaic are both Semitic languages (Persian is from the Indo-European tree, which has numerically more speakers than any other family of languages), but Hebrew writing was adapted for use by Aramaic-speaking Hebrews.

22 posted on 10/12/2018 12:09:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: nutmeg

bookmark


23 posted on 10/12/2018 12:15:20 AM PDT by nutmeg
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To: Pride in the USA

Thank you so much! You were right about that.


24 posted on 10/12/2018 1:21:56 AM PDT by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: SunkenCiv

LOL. Maybe not as much in archeology, but in business you see things being rejected out of hand non-stop. With uber-rich bosses saying something like “Who’s going to want to watch a movie in their home when there are thousands of big screen movie houses, 60 minutes of tape is plenty” (Sony BetaMax boss), or “What’s the point of having a computer so small that people can carry them around with them” (who knows, but probably someone out there).


25 posted on 10/12/2018 3:01:31 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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