More and More Menorahs

In excavations throughout Israel, images of menorahs (menorot in Hebrew) keep turning up. Last year Jerusalem archaeologists Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron discovered a first-century menorah graffito inscribed on a stone near the Temple Mount.a Then earlier this year, excavators at Horbat Uza, east of Akko, announced that they had uncovered a Byzantine ceramic seal during an Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) dig conducted prior to railroad construction. According to excavation directors Gilad Jaffe and Danny Sion, the 1,500-year-old seal was probably a bread stamp used by a local bakery to identify kosher baked goods. Epigrapher Leah di Segni of […]