&#;Victory of Heracles and Hauronas” reads the Greek inscription from a 2,200-year-old sling bullet. Contrary to what you might expect, however, the bullet was found not in Greece, but in Israel. The object was uncovered during the ongoing excavations at Tel Yavneh by the Israel Antiquities Authority and dates to a time when the town of Yavneh was a formally of the Seleucid Empire in the early years of the Hellenistic period (c. 332–37 BCE). The inscription written on the sling bullet, which is made of lead and measures about 2 inches long, would have served to taunt the enemy, […]
