ARCHAEOLOGY DAY

ARCHAEOLOGY DAY

Wednesday, January 4, 2012


Miriam had a document given to her brother in law Absalom, from her deceased husband.  The contract was called ketuba and gave her no other claims to the property of Absalom.  Jac(ob) son of Joseph, the scribe signature was at the end of the document. The ketuba is mixed with 2 languages Aramaic and Hebrew. It was dated for four years after the revolt of Bar-Kokhba.
 
This document was discovered near the Dead Sea scrolls in the Judean Desert. No one is sure how this document came about possibly confiscated from the Antiquity Authority. “Year 3 of Redemption of Israel" is rarely found on coins during the Byzantine period (fourth-seventh centuries). The document attested to the fact that is was received by Miriam.
 
The coins were customarily encrypted with the disaster that ended the period so we are able to learn about the era by discovering and studying the coins.  At the end of the second revolt won by the Romans Jerusalem changed the city's name to Aelia Capitolina.


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