{"id":701,"date":"2015-12-07T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T09:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/?p=701"},"modified":"2021-10-20T19:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:03:37","slug":"a-potsherd-from-the-temple-mount-with-an-incision-that-resembles-the-temple-menorah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/2015\/12\/07\/a-potsherd-from-the-temple-mount-with-an-incision-that-resembles-the-temple-menorah\/","title":{"rendered":"A Potsherd from the Temple Mount with an Incision that Resembles the Temple Menorah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to help decipher an archaeological mystery?<\/p>\n<p>A very interesting incised design appears on an ancient potsherd found in the sifting of the soil from the Temple Mount .&nbsp;Is it the Temple Menorah? Some kind of floral design? Something else? How can we date this potsherd? When was the incision done? By whom and for what purpose?<\/p>\n<p>If it is a menorah, what can we learn from this artifact?<\/p>\n<p>All these questions are currently being debated by the archaeologists studying this potsherd.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome your suggestions\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/27239-menorah-c.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-705\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-705\" src=\"\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/27239-menorah-c.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"27239 menorah-c\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/27239-menorah-c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/27239-menorah-c-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/27239-menorah-c-768x482.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to help decipher an archaeological mystery? A very interesting incised design appears on an ancient potsherd found in the sifting of the soil from the Temple Mount .&nbsp;Is it the Temple Menorah? Some kind of floral design? Something else? How can we date this potsherd? When was the incision done? By whom and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finds","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/pottery-sherd-with-etched-menorah-440.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9781,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/9781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}