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September 16, 2016

Discovered in Jerusalem: a Two-Millennium-Old Weight with the Name of the High Priest’s Family

Underneath a destroyed synagogue.

Digging beneath the ruins of a 19th-century synagogue that was destroyed by the Jordanians during their occupation of the West Bank, the archaeologist Oren Gutfeld has uncovered a number of Second-Temple-era artifacts. Among them is a scale weight whose inscription includes the name of the high priest’s family. Eli Mandelbaum writes:

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