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Volume 70, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0081-8933
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The paper presents an imported Roman lead figurine of Fortuna-Isis recently discovered during salvage excavations in the City of David, in an archaeological context dated to the mid-4th century CE. The presence of this Hellenistic-Roman Egypt syncretic deity was previously unattested in Jerusalem’s archaeological record.

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