Leon Levy, a hedge fund pioneer who began investing at 13 with $200 and went on to make many millions, enough to make him one of the main individual backers of archaeological research, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 77.
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The support he and his wife gave to archaeology resulted most famously in the 1990 dig in Israel that found a golden calf of the kind described in the Bible as being worshiped as an idol.
Mr. Levy funded the Ashkelon excavation, on which, as I mentioned earlier, I worked in the 1980s and where the "golden calf" was found. May his memory be for a blessing.
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