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Prize Find: An Incense Shovel from Bethsaida

By Rami Arav, Richard A. Freund

Slowly it emerged from the ground: a beautiful, 8-inch-long bronze incense shovel, the prize find of the 1996 excavations at Bethsaida, near the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

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Endnotes

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Samaria was renamed Sebastos, which is the Greek name (used in the East) for the Latin Augustus (the majestic); Stratonos Pyrgos was renamed Caesarea (Maritima); and a temple dedicated to Augustus at Banias, where Philip later founded a city, was renamed Caesarea Banias, also known as Caesarea Philippi.

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See, in particular, John J. Rousseau and Rami Arav, Jesus and His World (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995).