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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 (pictured), and a hoard of copper alloy coins from the reign of Antiochus III (223–187 B.C.E.).