Amazing find in eastern Jerusalem

[zachor_ve_kavod]

I think this is really cool, but of course I'm a history nerd.

From JTA:

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/20/1005303/first-temple-remains-discovered-in-jerusalem

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First Temple remains discovered in Jerusalem
May 20, 2009

JERUSALEM( JTA) -- Remains from the First Temple period were discovered in eastern Jerusalem.

The remains include a handle on which the Hebrew words "To Menachem" are inscribed.

The artifacts were discovered recently during an archaeological excavation conducted the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Ras el-Amud neighborhood prior to the construction of a girls’ school by the Jerusalem municipality.

It is not the first time that names similar to Menachem, which is an expression of condolence, have been found in Israel.

Excavation director Ron Beeri said such names appeared earlier in the Canaanite period: The name Yinachem was found written on an Egyptian pottery shard that dates to the 18th dynasty.

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[muman613]

The story I read left a bit of doubt about whether it was 1st or 2nd temple period. The A7 story I read yesterday said it dated to about

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131460

(IsraelNN.com) Archaeologists from Israel’s Antiquities Authority (IAA) have revealed two important artifacts recently discovered in Jerusalem, both dating from the First Temple Period (8-7 BCE).

8-7BCE would be the 2nd temple period...