{"id":83254,"date":"2021-02-03T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=83254"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:29:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:29:33","slug":"15-05-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=83254","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Greek inscription found by chance in the Negev"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Ancient Greek inscription found by chance in the Negev<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

HANNAH BROWN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The stone was found by a “Project 500” worker from the Parks and Nature Authority while cleaning and preparing nature paths in the Nitzana National Park.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The stone bearing a Greek inscription found by chance in the Negev. \/ (photo credit: EMIL ALADJEM\/ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A stone bearing an inscription in Greek from the end of the Byzantine period was discovered last weekend in the Nitzana National Park in the Negev. The flat, round stone, c. 25 cm. in diameter, was used as a tombstone in one of the cemeteries surrounding the ancient settlement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The stone was found by a \u201cProject 500\u201d worker from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority while cleaning and preparing nature paths in the Nitzana National Park.<\/span><\/p>\n

The stone was left at the head of the path, where it caught the eye of David Palmach, the director of the Nitzana Educational Eco-Village, who realized that it bore an inscription. Palmach photographed and collected it, to prevent its being looted. He also contacted the INPA and the Antiquities Authority, and the inscription is being transferred to the National Treasuries Department.<\/span><\/p>\n

The inscription was deciphered by Dr. Leah Di Segni of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and it refers to \u201cBlessed Maria, who lived an immaculate life\u201d and died on February 9. The stone dates from the late sixth-early seventh centuries CE.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Dr. Tali Erickson-Gini of the Antiquities Authority, \u201cNitzana is renowned as a key site in research into the transition between the Byzantine and the early Islamic periods. During the fifth and sixth centuries CE, Nitzana acted as a center for the villages and settlements in the vicinity. Among other things, it had a military fortress as well as churches, a monastery and a road station that served Christian pilgrims traveling to Santa Katarina, which believers regarded as the site of Mount Sinai.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Erickson-Gini, Nitzana was founded in as early as the third century BCE as a Nabataean road station on a major trade route, and the place was inhabited intermittently for about 1,300 years, until it was abandoned in the 10th century CE and its name was forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n

Archaeological excavations at the site in the 1930s unearthed a papyrus archive, and the name \u201cNessana\u201d was rediscovered. The burial-stone find, naming the deceased as Maria, joins other stones commemorating Christians buried in the churches and cemeteries around Nitzana that have been unearthed in excavations by the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Antiquities Authority Southern District archaeologist Pablo Betzer said, \u201cUnlike other ancient towns in the Negev, very little is known about the burial grounds around Nitzana. The find of any inscription such as this may improve our definition of the cemeteries\u2019 boundaries, thus helping to reconstruct the boundaries of the settlement itself, which have not yet been ascertained.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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