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| Title: A Donation for Herod's Temple in Jerusalem Secondary Title: IEJ Volume: 33 Pages: 86-92 Type: Journal Article Year: 1983 Abstract: "The inscription published in the present paper was discovered by B. Mazar and his team in excavations south of the Temple Mount ... The inscription records a benefaction made by Paris (or Sparis) son of Akeson, presumably a (Jewish) foreign resident at Rhodos, for a pavement somewhere on or near the Temple Mount. this may well have been the pavement of the southern court. The date is year 20 of a king who cannot be other than Herod, i.e. 18-17 B.C. This is the period in which the Temple was rebuilt. The inscription may support the earlier of the two dates given by Josephus for the commencement of the work. This is a rare record of a donation made for the building of the Temple complex and raises the question of whether such donations were more important as a means of financing the work than Josephus admits. The inscription is important as one of the few extant epigraphical documents related to the Temple in Jerusalem".
"The Greek inscription on a limestone plaque published in this article records the benefaction made by Paris (or Sparis) son of Akeson, presumably a (Jewish) foreign resident of Rhodos, for a pavement somewhere on or near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (which may well have been the pavement of the southern court). The date is the twentieth year in the reign of a king who cannot be other than Herod the Great (i.e. 18-17 B.C.). This inscription raises the question whether such donations were more important to Herod's building of the Temple complex than Josephus admitted". - D.J.H. Keywords: Archaeology, topography, local and regional history |