National Treasures

About Findings Periods The Mandatory Collection of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum
 
Object's Name: Weight Inscribed, Greek, Incised Inscription
Period: Late Hellenistic - Early Roman
Material: Limestone
Site: Jerusalem, Old City, Jewish Quarter, Area F, M
Lenght: 4.2 cm
Wide: 4.2 cm
Height: 3.2 cm
Description: 1st century BCE 2-3 incised letters. The letter "L" stands fr "year". year 40? year 33? The inscription records the date in which the weight was produced, calibrated and authorized.
Bibliography:
Geva H. 2006. stone artifacts in: H. Geva (ed.) Jewish quarter excavations in the old city of Jerusalem, Vol. III. Jerusalem, 226, pl. 9.4: 11.
Reich R. 2006. Stone scale weights In: H. Geva (ed.) Jewish quarter excavations in the old city of Jerusalem, Vol. III. Jerusalem, 333, 348- 349, table 18.1, 18.9: JQ 31.

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Photographer :Yolovitch Yael

Weight Inscribed  
Photographer :Yolovitch Yael





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