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I'm John Bachelorette. That is Macata American greatness. And we welcome the dusty one,

Indiana Home Line, in his bag of tricks, the chappo, the bullwhip. Indiana, you've found

something significant that you're going to help us with it. There's magic to it. That

is. Indiana, I'm from Detroit. We are big fans of Bob Seer and the Silver Bullet band,

but you have news of a magic bullet and it's Greek. What is it? That's absolutely right.

It's a lead sling bullet, meaning this was what they would use in sling shots, which were

weapons as we know from the story of David against Goliath. And this one, carried a Greek

inscription, victory of Iraqis and Arunas, which was part of the psychological warfare.

The main purpose of this was to terrorize the opponent and to unite the warriors and

raise their spirits. Whether this was used in a war against the Hasmonians, we don't

know for sure, but it's in the same area where it took place. These lead sling shots have

been known since the fifth century BCE, but very few were found with inscriptions in Israel.

And this is a message that is also supposed to magically energize the sling bullet itself.

So these were part of the psychological, but also the physical warfare. They could be deadly,

and especially the lead sling shot if it hit some in the head. That was pretty costly

and took a price. So this is about a 2200 year old bullet. And the conflict between the

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