Wadi Daliyeh
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The Wadi Daliyeh is a valley fourteen kilometres north of Jericho
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In 1962 excavations in the Cave of Abu Shinjeh (مغارة ابو سخبه) in the Daliyeh valley unearthed the bones of 205 people. Archaeologists judge that these were Samaritans who had fled from the reprisals of Alexander the Great in 310 BCE, following the murder of his satrap Andromachus. Two other caves, the Cave of Daliyeh, and the Cave of Shib Qubur, were also excavated.
In the wadi were discovered 18 partially legible Aramaic legal papyri and clay seals inscriptions from the 4thC BCE, during the reigns of Artaxerses and Artaxerses II. These were excavated in 1963 and the papyri are now housed in the Rockefeller Museum
in Jerusalem. The contents of the documents include the deeds for the sale of slaves. The most recent study is Wadi Daliyeh: the Samaria papyri from Wadi Daliyeh by Douglas Marvin Gropp, Moshe J. Bernstein, James C. VanderKam, Monica Brady (2001), and The Wadi Daliyeh Seal Impressions Vol.1 by Mary Joan Winn Leith(Oxford, 1997).
Jericho
Jericho ; is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories. It is the capital of the Jericho Governorate and has a population of more than 20,000. Situated well below sea level on an east-west route north of the Dead Sea, Jericho is the lowest permanently...
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In 1962 excavations in the Cave of Abu Shinjeh (مغارة ابو سخبه) in the Daliyeh valley unearthed the bones of 205 people. Archaeologists judge that these were Samaritans who had fled from the reprisals of Alexander the Great in 310 BCE, following the murder of his satrap Andromachus. Two other caves, the Cave of Daliyeh, and the Cave of Shib Qubur, were also excavated.
In the wadi were discovered 18 partially legible Aramaic legal papyri and clay seals inscriptions from the 4thC BCE, during the reigns of Artaxerses and Artaxerses II. These were excavated in 1963 and the papyri are now housed in the Rockefeller Museum
Rockefeller Museum
The Rockefeller Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum, is an archaeological museum located in East Jerusalem that houses a large collection of artifacts unearthed in the excavations conducted in Ottoman Palestine beginning in the late 19th century.The museum is under the management...
in Jerusalem. The contents of the documents include the deeds for the sale of slaves. The most recent study is Wadi Daliyeh: the Samaria papyri from Wadi Daliyeh by Douglas Marvin Gropp, Moshe J. Bernstein, James C. VanderKam, Monica Brady (2001), and The Wadi Daliyeh Seal Impressions Vol.1 by Mary Joan Winn Leith(Oxford, 1997).