East of Edom From: Jerusalem Post | Date: October 1, 1997| Author: Abraham Rabinovich | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Jerusalem Post

10-01-1997

The elegant maroon box on the table in the King David Hotel lobby might have held a tiara, but when the ribbon was undone and the lid raised the contents turned out to be broken pieces of old pottery.

To Prof. Bezalel Porten, a tiara could not have glittered more. What the Hebrew University scholar saw was not broken crockery but an ancient archive. The 2,300-year- o...

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