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Ammunition from the Era of the Maccabees Discovered in Time for Hanukkah
A Seleucid sling stone.
The Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes, which makes up the core of the story of Hanukkah, lasted from 167 to 160 BCE, but conflict between the Judeans and the Syria-based Greek-speaking empire continued for decades thereafter. Among the subsequent wars described in the first book of Maccabees is that which occurred when Diodotus Tryphon ruled the Seleucid empire. A stone, roughly 1.2 inches long and meant to be used in slingshot, bears witness to this conflict, as the Times of Israel reports:
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Ammunition from the Era of the Maccabees Discovered in Time for Hanukkah
A Seleucid sling stone.
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