PREVIEW: The joyful return of Indiana Hoenlein with Hanukkah-linked discoveries from the famous Givati parking lot excavation in the City of David: ceramic roofing tiles from the time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, villain of the tale. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf
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🗓️ 7 December 2023
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| 0:29.3 | This is John Bachelor a visit from Indiana Hone Line, missing many weeks. |
| 0:35.0 | He's been on the trail of treasures, and he's particularly keen on something he's found for Hanukkah. |
| 0:41.0 | This is in the city of David the excavation outside the crusader walls of |
| 0:48.0 | Jerusalem in what was a parking lot once upon a time. He's very excited about tiles for roofing, evidence of |
| 0:55.9 | trade, faraway trade from Greece. Here's Indiana and you can tell the excitement because he's breathless. He has many more secrets, but this is the first. |
| 1:07.0 | Oh, good to be back with you. It's been a while, but I have an amazing story that just is breaking that the most ancient |
| 1:14.6 | roof tiles found in the land of Israel were discovered in the city of David which I |
| 1:18.8 | know you have visited together with me and they were brought here at the time of the Seleucid King Antiochus the fourth |
| 1:26.0 | who was in the second century B.C. who as you know is connected to the story of Hanukah. |
| 1:32.4 | There was little evidence till now of the Greek |
| 1:35.1 | Seleucid period in Jerusalem. This finds which is very vital it was brought to |
| 1:41.2 | there by Antiochus epiphenes and it's the earliest sign of |
| 1:46.8 | use of ceramic roof tiles in the land of Israel, but also solidifies the |
| 1:51.0 | connection and the 16 Hellenistic period roof tile fragments were found in the |
| 1:57.6 | excavation in the city of David in the area that in the Givati parking, which we have discussed in that little |
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