Sunday, July 31, 2011

Coin Found At New Shiloh Excavation

I had previously blogged that a new season of archaeological excavations was underway at Tel Shiloh.

Well, we have had an exciting discovery:




Yes, that is a coin:




Photo credits: Yaakov Nitzan


Is it of the early Arab period?  The Ottoman period?  The Byzantine?  Roman?  Crusader?

Stay tuned for a report on the coin after it has been cleaned and observed in a laboratory.

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1 comment:

Juniper in the Desert said...

It looks just like the one I dropped on my visit there, 30 years ago!!