Biblical Archaeology Review

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Endnote 7 - Rare Incense Altar Raises Burning Questions

Shimon Dar, Settlements and Cult Sites on Mount Hermon, Israel: Ituraean Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, BAR International Series 589, (Oxford: Archaeopress, 1993), pp. 63–64 and 267. The site and temple of Har Senaim flowered during the first to third centuries C.E.

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Israel Museum no. 66–604. Excavated by Yael Israeli and Miriam Mann. As far as Israeli recalls, it came from a Byzantine-period grave.

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See Roland de Vaux, Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973).

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Yoram Nir-El and Magen Broshi, “The Black Ink of the Qumran Scrolls,” Dead Sea Discoveries 3 (1996), p. 158; also Broshi, personal communication.

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Inkwell: 55–68% copper, 23–39% lead, 5–8% tin. Altar: 58–62% copper, 35–40% lead, 1–2% tin. The tests were performed by Hegle Semb at the Norwegian Technical University in Trondheim on November 11, 1996. My thanks to Mr. Semb and the University for their assistance in this matter.

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Subsequent proprietors were Fayez Baraket of Los Angeles in 1975, Mathias Komor of New York in 1975, an anonymous collector from 1975 until 1992 and David Goldstein of Los Angeles from 1992 to 1994. In 1995 Kando confirmed that the inkwell and the altar indeed were found by Bedouin at Qumran around 1950. The altar and the inkwell are numbered 1655/4 and 1655/2 in the checklist of the Schøyen Collection.

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Endnote 6 - Newly Unveiled Seal Impression Attests Another Biblical Figure

My attempt to complete the title as: sr h(‘r), “Over the City,” is now proven to be wrong by the above identical bulla. See Robert Deutsch, Messages from the Past, (Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publication, 1999), p. 76, no. 11.