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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TEL SHIMRON EXCAVATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHER MELISSA AJA

GOOD AS GOLD. Some of the prize finds from Tel Shimron’s 2019 season include electrum foil from the 11th century B.C.E., a faience Eye of Horus amulet from the Hellenistic period, and a hoard of copper alloy coins from the reign of Antiochus III (223–187 B.C.E.; shown here). The coins had been hidden in a pit under the floor of a building, which had been suddenly abandoned in the second century B.C.E.