The area embrace innovative - day Israel is rich with artifacts representing millennia of human history . First inhabit by ancient roving kin group some200,000 years ago , this slice of theFertile Crescentwent on to host some of the most influential early western culture after we transition into settlement - building agrarian societies rough 15,000 years ago . The city of Jerusalem specifically , a site central to many key tale in the Semitic and Christian faiths , has existed forroughly 6,000 year .
As a issue , exciting relics of the past times arecontinually being discover ; often only as soon as one start up digging somewhere new .
The stone , which has been see to the first century CE , near the end of the Second Temple Period in Jewish history , reads : Hanania Bar , Dodalos , M’YerushalaimorHananiah , Word of Dodalos of Jerusalem .
Yuval Baruch , a Jerusalem specialist with the IAA , and Professor Ronny Reich of Haifa University , who studied the inscription , remark that First and Second Temple time period inscriptions mentioning Jerusalem are quite rarified .
“ But even more unequalled is the complete spelling of the name as we know it today , which normally appears in the shorthand translation , " they enjoin in the statement .
" This is the only Harlan Fiske Stone lettering of the Second Temple stop known where the full spelling appears . This spelling is only known in one other instance , on a coin of the Great Revolt against the Romans ( 66 - 70 CE ) . The strange spelling is also attest to in the Bible , where Jerusalem appears 660 time , with only five reference – of a relatively former engagement – sustain the full spelling . "
situate next to where the rock was found are ruins of what was once the largest ancient pottery production site in the region of Jerusalem for 300 yr , according to the IAA ’s Danit Levy . The internet site , which features kilns , pools for preparing clay , plastered piss cisterns , and workspace for drying and storing the vas , appears to have been focused mainly on creating cookware . The flock were then sold in large quantities to the people of the city .
Dudy Mevorach , Chief Curator of Archaeology at the Israel Museum , said : " [ T]he archaeologic context of the lettering does not allow us to determine where it was in the beginning display , or who Hananiah son of Dodalos was . But it is potential that he was an artist - ceramicist , the Word of an artist - potter , who adopt a name from the Grecian fabulous region , followingDaedalus , the ill-famed artist . "
