(Ynet News) Eli Mandelbaum - Nearly 2,000 years after the Second Temple was destroyed in 70 CE, archaeologist Dr. Oren Gutfeld of Hebrew University of Jerusalem has found a scale weight from that period that belonged to the family of the high priest - and which has his name carved on it. The weight was found at an excavation at the Tiferet Israel Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The weight has two lines of Aramaic text and a lyre between them. The family name of the high priest is discernible.
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