The Jehoash Inscription is the name of a controversial artifact claimed to have been discovered in a Muslim cemetery near the Temple Mount of Jerusalem during the 1990s. It was sold to the antiquities dealer Hassan Aqilan from East Jerusalem, who...
Jehoash (Hebrew: יְהוֹאָשׁ, romanized: Yəhōʾāš, lit. '"Yah-given"'; Greek: Ιωας; Latin: Ioas), also known as Joash (in King James Version), Joas (in Douay–Rheims) or Joás (Hebrew: יוֹאָשׁ, romanized: Yōʾāš), was the eighth king of Judah, and the...
Jehoash (Hebrew: יְהוֹאָשׁ Yəhō’āš or יוֹאָשׁ Yō’āš; Israelian Hebrew: 𐤀𐤔𐤉𐤅 *’Āšīyāw; Akkadian: 𒅀𒀪𒋢 Yaʾsu [ia-'-su]; Latin: Ioas; fl. c. 790 BC) was the twelfth king of the ancient northern Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) and the son of Jehoahaz in 2...
These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus. Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of...
The James Ossuary is a limestone box that is claimed to be from the 1st-century that was used for containing the bones of the dead (known as an ossuary). An Aramaic inscription carved into one side of the box reads, in translation, "James, son of...
The following is a list of inscribed artifacts, items made or given shape by humans, that are significant to biblical archaeology.
Oded Golan (Hebrew: עודד גולן; born 1951 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli engineer, entrepreneur, and antiquities collector. He owns one of the largest collections of Biblical archaeology items in the world.
Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple (Hebrew: בַּיִת רִאשׁוֹן, romanized: Bayyit Rīšōn, lit. 'First Temple'), was a Temple in Jerusalem believed to have existed between the 10th and 6th centuries BCE. Its description is largely based on...
The Tel Dan Stele is a fragmentary stele with an Old Aramaic inscription written in the Phoenician script. It is generally dated to the 9th-century BCE, though some scholars have proposed later dates; it is one of the earliest, extra-biblical...
Several kinds of archaeological remnants of the Jerusalem Temple exist. Those for what is customarily called Solomon's Temple are indirect and some are challenged. There is extensive physical evidence for the temple called the Second Temple that was...
