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The Color Purple. In Ancient Israel Author: Gary Byers MA Created: 13 May 2021 In January 2021, the Central Timna Valley (CTV) Project published in the online journal PLOS ONE the results of their excavation of an ancient copper mining and smelting operation in southern Israel, along with an analysis of three specific items found in the excavation. Their report offered to the world – because this respected peer-reviewed research journal is available online to everyone – a special look into the world of the ancient Near East and the Bible. Timna Copper Purple Three dyed textile fragments were excavated at a site named “Slave’s Hill” by archaeologists in the 1930s. It is within a copper mining and smelting production district in the Timna Valley of southern Israel – once the territory of the ancient kingdom of Edom. In a shallow depression just above bedrock within a mixed locus of reddish sediments and crushed sandstone, wool yarn and fibers dyed with a purplish hue were found. The locus was tightly dated to the late 11th–early 10th centuries BC by both pottery and short-lived radiometric dating. This was the period of Kings David and Solomon.
A 2,000-year-old oil lamp in the shape of a hideous face cut in half was found in the City of David. And according to archaeologists, the bronze lamp was placed in the foundation of a Roman-era building on Pilgrimage Road for good luck. That specific road would have been traveled on by Jewish pilgrims who were visiting the Temple Mount. The very rare lamp would have been placed there not long after the Second Temple was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago. According to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), they think that the lamp was put in the foundation as part of a ritual burial offering for good fortune to those inhabiting the building. In a statement from the IAA, Dr. Yuval Baruch and Ari Levy went into further details, “The offering of this lamp may attest to the importance of the building, which may have been linked to the protection of the Siloam Pool, the city’s primary water source,” adding, “The uniqueness of the current object is that it is only half a face.”