Volunteers Find Missing Pieces to Looted Inscription

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In the November/December 2008 issue of BAR, we reported on an inscribed limestone stela that had been purchased on the antiquities market by Judy and Michael Steinhardt and is on permanent loan to the Israel Museum.a The incomplete stela, broken off at the bottom, was studied and published by Hannah M. Cotton and Michael Wörrle.1 They determined that the inscription dated to 178 B.C.E. and had three parts: two letters written by lower administrative officials, followed by a letter from King Seleucus IV to his senior advisor Heliodoros (providing historical context for the royal official Heliodoros named in a […]

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Footnotes

Hershel Shanks, “Inscription Reveals Roots of Maccabean Revolt,” BAR 34:06.

Endnotes

Hannah M. Cotton and Michael Wörrle, “Seleukos IV to Heliodoros—A New Dossier of Royal Correspondence from Israel,” Zeitschrift für Philologica und Epigrafia 159 (2007), pp. 191–203.

Dov Gera, “Olympiodoros, Heliodoros and the Temples of Koile Syria and Phoinike,” Zeitschrift für Philologica und Epigrafia 169 (2009), pp. 125–155.