Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Update on that Jerusalem cave with mikveh & inscriptions

SPLEUNIC ICONOGRAPHY AND ARAMAIC EPIGRAPHY: Random Graffiti or Encoded Messages? The Mysterious Message in A Second-Temple Period Mikvah (unattributed, crownheights.info).

This article is a summary of an article in Qadmoniot, a journal of the Israel Exploration Society which is in Hebrew and behind a subscription wall.

I noted the discovery of the cave in 2015 here and here. This is the first update I have seen. The most interesting new information concerns the drawings of ships. It mentions the Aramaic inscriptions, but does not discuss any decipherments. There are some good photos too.

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