Vorkosigan

Two articles on the BAR website

Duke University Professor Claims: A Third of Israel Museum’s Inscriptions Are Forgeries

Estimates are running as high as 30 or 40 percent of all inscribed materials in the Israel Museum [in Jerusalem] have been forged,� said Professor Eric Meyers of Duke University in a lecture sponsored by Cornerstone University’s Center for the Study of Antiquity (CSA) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this past May.

Israel Antiquities Authority: Too Much Booze Nabs Golan as Forger

Apparently the police were able to crack the case because of too much booze. The alleged forgery technician of the conspiracy—the man who supposedly carved the inscription—is an Egyptian jeweler who has worked in Israel for 15 years. Part of every year he works for Golan. The Egyptian jeweler has a Jewish girlfriend with whom he would go to Tel Aviv pubs and drink. While drinking, he divulged to his girlfriend what he had been doing. “[Many] people heard it,� Dahari told the rapt crowd at Cornerstone University. “The police put their finger on these people and his girlfriend,� all of whom apparently told their story to the police.

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It's interesting that BAR ran with the second article. While the first has a defence in the second half (naturally featuring Lemaire), the Dahari article is totally condemning.


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Rick Sumner

Ouch. I suspect a lot of people are going to end up with a lot of egg on their faces from all this.

Weren't there three distinct seals for the Hezekiah bullae? All of them multiply represented?

Regards,
Rick Sumner

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Here is the text of Dahari's speech in Word format or translated into HTML by Google.


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Steven Carr

There is a transcript of this 'trial' at
http://www.bib-arch.org/bswbOOossuary_trial.html
It says that Golan has changed his mind about whether he bought it 15 or 25 years ago.

I thought his story was that he bought it at the time of the 6-day war, when he was just 16.

Peter Kirby

"We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia..."

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Peter Kirby

Rick Sumner

Has anyone read anything else on this? i.e. Which impression was the forgery?

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Rick Sumner