{"id":84065,"date":"2021-03-05T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=84065"},"modified":"2021-02-27T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T11:36:09","slug":"27-05-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=84065","title":{"rendered":"Was a Pagan couple buried in ancient Bnei Brak some 1,800 years ago?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Was a Pagan couple buried in ancient Bnei Brak some 1,800 years ago?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

ROSSELLA TERCATIN <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Two stone sarcophagi were uncovered at Ramat Gan Safari Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ancient sarcophagi found at the Ramat Gan Safari Park. \/ (photo credit: YOLI SCHWARTZ\/IAA)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Two stone sarcophagi dating back to the second or third century CE were uncovered at the Ramat Gan Safari Park during construction works to expand its wildlife hospital, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe arrived at the Ramat Gan Safari Park as a result of vicissitudes that began some 25 years ago, when the park decided to build a parking lot,\u201d Uzi Rothstein from the IAA Theft Prevention Unit commented. \u201cThe contractor cleared two stone structures and transported them to a farther area without having any idea of what he was dealing with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The sarcophagi were left untouched for years, covered in vegetation and dirt, until work on the new complex began, and the new contractor realized that those stones might actually be much more significant than previously thought. He alerted the safari park staff, who then got in touch with Rothstein and his colleague, Alon Klein.<\/span><\/p>\n

The artifacts were made when the Romans ruled over the land of Israel. According to the archaeologists, the decorations featured on them were very common in Pagan burials: symbolic discs \u2013 to protect and accompany the soul on its journey to the afterlife \u2013 and floral garlands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of the similarity between the sarcophagi, the experts said they may have belonged to husband and wife couple. Moreover, whoever was buried in them must have been wealthy.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the provenance of the artifacts is unknown, the safari park is located near the area where the ancient city of Bnei Brak once stood. The city is mentioned in the Passover Haggadah as the setting of perhaps the most famous seder in Jewish history.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt happened once [on Pesach] that Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon were reclining in Bnei Brak and were telling the story of the exodus from Egypt that whole night,\u201d reads the text (translation Sefaria.org).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Was a Pagan couple buried in ancient Bnei Brak some 1,800 years ago? ROSSELLA TERCATIN Two stone sarcophagi were uncovered at Ramat Gan Safari Park. Ancient sarcophagi found at the Ramat Gan Safari Park. \/ (photo credit: YOLI SCHWARTZ\/IAA) Two stone sarcophagi dating back to the second or third century CE were uncovered at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84065"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84211,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84065\/revisions\/84211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}