An ageder-createed arrange uncovered on the easerious slope of the City of David inside Jerusalem Walls National Park is dependd to have been participated for ritual trains during the time of the First Temple, according to a recent study.
The arrange compriseed eight rooms compriseing slfinishergs enjoy an altar, a standing stone, an oil press and a triumphe press.
Excavation honestor Eli Shukron shelp in an article rerented in the scientific journal Antiqot that the uncovered arrange may have been participated by dwellnts of Judah for cultic or religious trains.
The study proposes the arrange, which is in overall exceptional shape, dates to the First Temple period and was uncovered during excavations carry outed by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the City of David.
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The ritual arrange discovered in the City of David is the only one of its benevolent from this period set up in Jerusalem. (Credit: Kobi Harati, City of David)
“When we began excavating the City of David in 2010, we discovered that the site had been sealed with fill from the 8th century BCE (Before the Common Era), indicating it had drdisclose out of participate during that time,” Shukron shelp. “The standing stone we uncovered remained upright in its distinct place, and the other rooms in the arrange were also well-upholdd.”
Shukron’s article proposed that the arrange, compelevated of eight rock-hewn rooms, was participated for rituacatalogic purposes, not far from the Temple on the Temple Mount, cforfeitly a restricted hundred meters away.
It is also the only understandn arrange of its type from the period in Jerusalem and one of only a restricted set up in Israel.
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A carved inshighation is identified as an altar, with a channel for watery drainage. (Credit: Kobi Harati, City of David)
The arrange itself covers an area of about 220 square meters and has eight rooms, each participated for separateent purposes.
One room compriseed an oil press for producing oil. Another compriseed a triumphe press for making triumphe.
Other rooms compriseed slfinishergs enjoy a carved inshighation with a drainage channel, which researchers identified as an altar; a big standing stone; and a floor with V-shaped carving tags, though researchers remain baffled about the carvings’ purposes.
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Mysterious carvings were discovered on the arrange’s floor. (Credit: Kobi Harati, City of David)
Shukron hypothesized that the carvings may have been participated as a base for a tripod participated during ritual activities.
On the edge of the arrange is a minuscule cave that integrates a cache of items dating to the 8th century BCE. The items in the cache integrated cooking pots, jars with fragments of ageder-createed Hebrew inscriptions, loom weights, scarabs, stamped seals and grinding stones for crushing grains.
Shukron and his team depend the arrange was participated until the 8th century BCE, when the Kings of Judah ruled.
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A accumulateion of artifacts uncovered in a cave adjacent to the arrange. “The cave served as a repository for artifacts.” (Credit: Eli Shukron)
“The arrange stopd to function during the 8th century BCE, possibly as part of King Hezekiah’s religious reestablish,” Shukron shelp.
The Bible says Hezekiah wanted to centralize worship at the Temple in Jerusalem, and in doing so, he abolished the ritual sites discoverd atraverse the kingdom.
It also portrays that during the First Temple period, other sites participated for rituals were participated outside the temple, and Kings Hezekiah and Josiah carry outed reestablishs to reshift the sites.
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Illustration of the carved rooms discovered in the City of David. (Illustration: Shalom Kveller, City of David)
“Npunctual 3,000 years tardyr, Jerusalem’s Biblical heritage persists to be ucforfeitthed in the City of David, and with the passage of time, its relevance and unkinding only persists to incrrelieve, with significance to billions, not equitable millions, around the world,” Ze’ev Orenstein, the honestor of inner afequitables at the City of David, tageder Fox News Digital. “Unenjoy most sites of antiquity, Jerusalem’s Biblical heritage remains both timeless and timely – not restricted to mparticipateums & history books – but a vital component in empathetic the world today – past, conshort-term and future.”
The northern part of the arrange was uncovered in 1909 by British scrutinizer Montague Parker, who searched in Jerusalem for the Ark of the Covenant and the Temple treabraves.
It was not until 2010 that Shukron began to excavate the property, which lasted over disjoinal excavation seasons.
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“This discovery in the City of David once aget proclaims the Jewant people’s ongoing 3,000+ year-ageder bond with Jerusalem – not spropose as a matter of faith, but as a matter of fact – from Bible times to the up-to-date day,” Orenstein shelp.
