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What is Apollo doing in Jerusalem?
A seal set in a ring from the Second Temple period was found
A seal (gamma) from 2000 years ago, bearing the portrait of the sun god Apollo, was discovered in the City of David.
Although this is a god associated with foreign cultures, scholars think that the person who wore the ring was actually a Jew.
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Ziv Reinstein
Thursday, 29 October 2020, 08:13
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A seal bearing the image of the god Apollo was discovered in the City of David (Photo: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
Temple Mount:
During an archeological soil filtration activity taking place in the Tzurim Valley National Park under the auspices of the City of David Association together with the Nature and Parks Authority, a stone seal was recently discovered with the portrait of the Greek sun god Apollo engraved on it. excavations in Jerusalem from the second Temple only two trends seal of this type.
the seal (gamma) embedded previously in a ring, dates from the late second Temple (first century AD) and is made of stone Jasper (jasper) dark brown with remnants of yellow layer - light brown and white The
tiny trunk is made of an oval shape with a maximum length of 13 mm, a maximum width of 11 mm and a thickness of 3 mm.
On the trunk, which was used to sign contracts and letters, goods or bundles of money, Apollo's head is engraved from the profile of his left face: long hair glides over a broad pillar-like neck, large nose, thick lips and a small and prominent chin.
The hair is styled on the scalp in a series of parallel lines that descend on the forehead and are directed to the apex.
One line marks a wig that covers an ear, and long series of curls behind the neck and on the left shoulder.
At the lower end of the engraving appear a number of thin lines that stand diagonally to each other and mark the end of the garment and the end of the body.
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Previously embedded in a ring.
The stone seal with a portrait of the Greek sun god Apollo (Photo: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
Hagma was used to sign contracts and letters, goods or bundles of money (Photo: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
Why would a Jew wear a ring with the portrait of a foreign god?
According to the researchers - the independent archaeologist Eli Shukron, Prof. Shua Amorai-Stark and the senior archaeologist Malka Hershkovitz, although he is a god associated with the Ionian and Roman cultures, it can be said with high probability that whoever wore the ring with the portrait of Apollo was actually a Jew.
According to archaeologist Eli Shukron, who conducted the excavation in which the find was discovered, "it is rare to find seal remains bearing the figure of the god Apollo at sites identified with the Jewish population. And the current trend that is exposed in close proximity to the Temple Mount and the Temple, which stood on its own during the period of its use.
Shukron adds, "When we found the gem, we asked ourselves what Apollo is doing in Jerusalem, and why would a Jew wear a ring with the portrait of a foreign god? From the influence of the elements that the character of Apollo represents: light, purity, health and success. "
The back of the seal (Photo: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
"Magma creators wanted to emphasize the dichotomous aspect of light and darkness"
According to the researcher of studies, Prof. Shua Amorai-Stark, "During this period, at the end of the Second Temple period, the sun god Apollo was one of the most popular gods in the Near East. Among the responsibilities of this god, it is likely that Of light in the face of darkness was very conspicuously present in the Jewish worldview in those days.
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Choice dark stone with bright yellow hair, raises the possibility that the creators of gamma sought to emphasize the aspect dichotomy of light and darkness. "
Gamma tiny discovered by one of the participants in the experience of the archaeological national park Valley Zurim, who recently came with his family to participate in filtering dust.
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