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Tel Maresha is located in the foothills of Israel's Judaean
Mountains. It was established in the Iron Age II (circa 700 BCE)
and is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Josh 15:44; I Chron. 2:42).
But it was mainly a Hellenistic-period town-a major Idumean
political and administrative centre. One of the unique and
fascinating aspects of Maresha is its subterranean city-hundreds of
underground galleries and chambers filled to the gills with
artifacts. This volume is a report of the excavations of one of
these rich subterranean complexes-SC 169-which contained a full
corpus of Hellenistic pottery forms, both local and exotic altars,
figurines, amulets, seals and seal impressions, hundreds of
inscriptions in Greek and Aramaic, coins, jewelry and much more.
These finds tell the story of an affluent cosmopolitan society
comprised of Idumeans, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Jews, who lived
together in a vibrant urban setting until the city was destroyed,
probably by the Jewish Hasmonean kingdom in 104 BCE.
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