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Heliodorus stele

Heliodorus stele

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447409000&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull by STEPHEN GABRIEL ROSENBERG The writer is senior fellow of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archeological Research in Jerusalem.

The stele was acquired by Michael and Judy Steinhardt from a collector and is of unknown provenance

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447412570&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Pieces of Hanukka brought together By BRIAN BLONDY

three inscribed pieces of stone found at Beit Guvrin's Tel Maresha between 2005 and 2006 belonged together with a larger stele piece that was donated to the IsraelMuseum in 2007.

The three smaller pieces, which come from the base of the stele, were unearthed under the aegis of Dr. Ian Stern's Archaeological Seminars Institute program "Dig for a Day."

Stern has brought amateur volunteers to participate in his excavations at Tel Maresha in the Beit Guvrin National Park. During a "Dig for a Day" seminar in December 2005, lucky participants found a broken stone artifact in a cave in the area which bore a Greek inscription.

in early 2007, a large stele with sections missing at its base was provided on extended loan to the IsraelMuseum by birthright israel co-founder Michael Steinhardt and his wife Judy, of New York. Considered one of the most important ancestral inscriptions ever found in Israel, and exhibited at the museum that May and June,

In March 2007, shortly before the stele was displayed at the Israel Museum, Dr. Hannah M. Cotton-Paltiel, a specialist in classical languages from the Hebrew University ofJerusalem, and Prof. Michael Wöerrle of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy at the German Archaeological Institute in Munich, published a translation and a research analysis of the stele text. That same year, unaware of any possible connection to the stele, Stern consulted with Dr. Dov Gera, a Ben-Gurion University specialist in Second Temple Jewish history and Greek Epigraphy, over the three pieces found at Maresha. Gera, who then set to work deciphering the inscriptions on the first Stern piece only, told the Post that initially he hadn't made "much headway at all." "It was only later, in the fall of 2008 at the warehouses of the Israel Antiquities Authority, that I managed to see all of the pieces Stern had found at his site together, and I began to recognize their similarity to the Israel Museum piece, which I'd seen during its exhibition," Gera continued. "Working with the three pieces at the warehouse, spending time at the library and time at home, there was one particular moment when I just realized that the three [Stern] pieces belonged to the same inscription" as the one on the stele he'd seen the previous year at the Israel Museum.

http://biblicalpaths.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/the-ancient-tablet-that-brings-pieces-of-hanukka-brought-together/

In an instruction dig in Beit Guvrin, three pieces of stone, inscribed in Greek, were found by young volunteers in 2005 and 2006. The pieces were small and of little interest until they were shown in 2008 to Prof. Dov Gera of Ben-Gurion University, who saw that they were part of the missing base of the Heliodorus stele.

Another researcher who has worked with Stern, Tel Aviv University Prof. Yuval Goren, is certain, on the basis of its patina and the soil remnants attached to it, that the Steinhardt-purchased stele must have come from the same chalky cave area where the other three pieces were found. Together, the stele and its fragments constitute the largest inscription of its kind ever discovered in Israel.

http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/21_heliodorus.html

if it is unprovenanced, then why are scholars publishing articles about it, and why is it in the israel mseum. if it is provenanced (moresha), what is it doing on the antiquities market, and how did the steinbergs get it?

http://www.library.upenn.edu/cajs/fellows08/cotton-transcription.html

http://www.library.upenn.edu/cajs/fellows08/cotton.html

http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2007/05/07/the-heliodorus-stele-zpe-159-2007-191-205/

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