tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post1764901560342594713..comments2024-03-21T14:59:20.729-04:00Comments on NT Blog: Correction in Identifying One of the Talpiot Tomb B OssuariesMark Goodacrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-33811844159342822442012-03-17T15:40:13.171-04:002012-03-17T15:40:13.171-04:00Shalom James,
Just curious; how long were you fil...Shalom James,<br /><br />Just curious; how long were you filming and photographing at the tomb?Tom Verennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06134426966588179904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-7919612697330061072012-03-17T15:07:29.664-04:002012-03-17T15:07:29.664-04:00Thanks for your comments, James. I have now updat...Thanks for your comments, James. I have now updated this post by adding photographs and captions so that it is easier to follow for others.Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-3780375520855658412012-03-16T13:39:56.842-04:002012-03-16T13:39:56.842-04:00Many thanks for your sharp eyes on this Mark. I ha...Many thanks for your sharp eyes on this Mark. I had wrongly assumed, not noticing the "lid," that if our camera people filmed inside an ossuary it must have been the broken one to which you refer. As it turns out no. 4 had the lid ajar, and that is how those pictures were produced. Either Rami or I were present for all the filming, which is required by our IAA license (directors have to be on the scene at all times) but I think I had gone into town for something the afternoon they took these shots. Anyway, we are making the corrections all around.<br /><br />What is most important from this is that we can indeed identify ossuary #5 in the 1981 photo and on Kloner's map as the one with the Greek inscription, confirming it has been moved--but it is not the one that is chalked marked #5. That means we have been able to correlate the 1981 and present locations of all the ossuaries with some certainty except nos. 2 and 3--though we know they are either our ossuary 1 or ossuary 2 respectively--we just don't know which is which. Ossuary 4, which is the one we get a peak inside, has on the far end the faint Greek inscription that appears in the 1918 B&W photos. I am hoping that some sharp eyed epigrapher can decipher the name, which I have suggested might be IONAS, IONA, or JULIA...James D. Taborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18137109228365359971noreply@blogger.com