Archaeologists find2,700-year-old ?governor of Jerusalem? seal impression

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JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists unveiled on Monday a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which they said belonged to a biblical governor of Jerusalem. The artefact, inscribed in an ancient Hebrew script as ?belonging to the governor of the city?, was likely attached to a shipment or sent as a souvenir on behalf of the governor, the most prominent local position held in Jerusalem at the time, the Israel Antiquities Authority said. The impression, the size of a small coin, depicts two standing men, facing each other in a mirror-like manner and wearing striped garments reaching down to their knees. It was unearthed near the plaza of Judaism´s Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. ?It supports the Biblical rendering of the existence of a governor of the city in Jerusalem 2,700 years ago,? an Antiquities Authority statement quoted excavator Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah as saying.

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