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PHOTO GABI LARON, COURTESY OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY

HIGH ABOVE THE JUDEAN DESERT, archaeologists in the 1960s unearthed at the palace-fortress of Masada a potsherd inscribed “H[anania]h the high priest, ‘Aqavia his son”—possibly a reference to the high priest Ananias from the Herodian period.