(Jerusalem Post) Daniel K. Eisenbud - A fragment from a glass bracelet inscribed with a seven-branched menorah from the Second Temple period was discovered during Hanukkah at an excavation in the Mount Carmel National Park, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday. The excavation's co-directors, Limor Talmi and Dan Kirzne, said in a statement that on "the bracelet, which is made of turquoise-colored glass...stamped impressions of two menorahs survived on the small fragment that was found - one a plain seven-branched menorah, of which only the surface of the menorah is visible, and the other one consisting of a seven-branched menorah with flames depicted above its branches."
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