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Does anyone know of a database that organizes reports, either preliminary or final ones, about archaeological projects in Israel and their findings? I am interested whether further publications have emerged on the coins from c. 17 CE found in 2011 in an excavated mikveh that was filled in during construction of part of the platform of the Temple. A preliminary news release:

http://news.yahoo.com/sheds-light-ancie ... 56159.html

So far I haven't found anything more recent on this find. Its importance is that it seems to show that construction of structurally important parts of the temple complex went on well after the death of Herod the Great.

I recall that Stephan Happy Huller posted a database of inscriptions. Since these are coins, I'm wondering whether people know of other databases.

Many thanks, F

There is this one, which was linked to the site Stephan provided:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/israelexperie ... sites.aspx

Unfortunately, it is about ten years out of date.

Short answer, to my knowledge, is no, but:

Since 2004 the IAA puts the list of excavations permits online: http://www.antiquities.org.il/m_digs_eng.asp?shana=2004

Archaeologists in Israel are also required to submit summary and final reports to the IAA, which are published in "Excavations and Surveys in Israel" (also online since 2004): http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/reports_list_eng.aspx

Those may be of some use in tracking down the dig that caught your eye and its status.

Fascinating, brando_slc, and very useful. Many thanks.

This might be from the dig I mentioned in the OP, can't quite tell. No mention of coins, though:

http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_d ... mag_id=118

Looks like you found it. The digs by Shukron/Reich are part of multi-year excavations in the area, the final reports are probably not out, but I did see the IAA press release on the significance of the find that you noted:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_I ... ule_id=#as

ficino wrote:Does anyone know of a database that organizes reports, either preliminary or final ones, about archaeological projects in Israel and their findings? I am interested whether further publications have emerged on the coins from c. 17 CE found in 2011 in an excavated mikveh that was filled in during construction of part of the platform of the Temple. A preliminary news release:

http://news.yahoo.com/sheds-light-ancie ... 56159.html

So far I haven't found anything more recent on this find. Its importance is that it seems to show that construction of structurally important parts of the temple complex went on well after the death of Herod the Great.

I recall that Stephan Happy Huller posted a database of inscriptions. Since these are coins, I'm wondering whether people know of other databases.

Many thanks, F

It's a known fact that the temple construction was ongoing.

Josephus reports that various rebels tried to break into Jerusalem and into the temple at various times and were hunted down by the Romans. The temple rarely got away without harm. In one event, rebels made it all the way into cloisters in the temple, and the cloisters were burned with the rebels in them. On another occasion, one set of towers was undermined and collapsed, and this affected the foundation of the temple mount itself.

Hence the Jewish leaders in John 2: "It has taken these 46 years to build this temple..." (from 19 BC to 27 AD).

Mental flatliner wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2014 11:05 am Hence the Jewish leaders in John 2: "It has taken these 46 years to build this temple..." (from 19 BC to 27 AD).

Since by the year 18 BC they'd have been saying, "It's taken a whole year ...,"
and by year 17 BC they'd have been saying, "It's taken these two years ...,"
by year 1 BC they'd have been saying, "It has taken these eighteen years ..."

Not until AD 28, therefore, would they have been saying forty-six.

https://www.antiquities.org.il/survey/n ... lt_en.aspx

https://www.antiquities.org.il/article_ ... nt%20plans.