18 Finds from the Qumran Caves: Roland de Vaux’s Inventory of the Excavations (1949–1956)

Humbert, Jean-Baptiste; Fidanzio, Marcello

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“…III.3 does not match any photograph now in the inventory. In addition, as noted by Fidanzio and Humbert (2016) there can be discrepancies between the description of an artefact and its apparent typology: Q31 is identified with Q17, but the description of Q31 corresponds to Q19 and not Q17; Q25 is identified with Q19, but the description matches Q18; Q29 is compared with Q12, but the description matches Q11;…”

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“…Finally we return to the ceramic material, largely the jars and lids. The pottery is the easiest category of objects to find, since de Vaux kept records, including a handwritten card index/inventory with descriptions, drawings and photographs of 57 objects (see Fidanzio and Humbert 2016), though it is not entirely a straightforward process to study these. From the official excavations a number of jars and lids were reconstituted, and while some remain in the Qumran holdings of the Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem,…”

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“…However, in DJD 1 photograph captions do not list the inventory numbers (given the prefix 'Q'). When the photographs of the archival handlist are compared with DJD 1 it is possible to determine these (see Fidanzio and Humbert 2016), but only 45 photographs were conserved of the 57 objects, and the lid illustrated in DJD, Pl. III.3 does not match any photograph now in the inventory.…”

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Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its Archaeological Assemblage

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Qumran Cave 1Q was the first site of Dead Sea scroll discoveries. Found and partly emptied by local Bedouin, the cave was excavated officially in 1949 and published in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Volume 1) in 1955. Contents of the cave are found in collections worldwide, and in different institutions in Jerusalem and Amman. While the scrolls are the most highly prized artefacts from this cave, in archaeological terms they are part of an assemblage that needs to be understood holistically in order to make conclusions about its character and dating. This study presents all of the known items retrieved from the cave, including those that are currently lost, in order to consider what we might know about the cave prior to its emptying and the changes to its form. AbstractQumran Cave 1Q was the first site of Dead Sea scroll discoveries. Found and partly emptied by local Bedouin, the cave was excavated officially in 1949 and published in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Volume 1) in 1955. Contents of the cave are found in collections worldwide, and in different institutions in Jerusalem and Amman. While the scrolls are the most highly prized artefacts from this cave, in archaeological terms they are part of an assemblage that needs to be understood holistically in order to make conclusions about its character and dating. This study presents all of the known items retrieved from the cave, including those that are currently lost, in order to consider what we might know about the cave prior to its emptying and the changes to its form. It constitutes preliminary work done as part of the Leverhulme funded International Network for the Study of Dispersed Qumran Caves Artefacts and Archival Sources.

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Section: Pottery Itemsmentioning

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Section: Pottery Itemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pottery Itemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Scroll Divided?

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When the Dead Sea scroll 1QHodayota, containing a collection of thanksgiving psalms from Qumran, was acquired by Eleazar L. Sukenik in 1947, he received it in two separate bundles of folded and wadded material. In this article, I explore whether the material from these two bundles belongs to the same scroll or to two separate scrolls as Jean Carmignac and Angela Kim Harkins have proposed. While it is generally recognized that the folded bundle contained cols. 9–20, it is disputed whether cols. 1–8 were found with cols. 21–28 in the wadded bundle. I examine early photographs and accounts of the discovery, acquisition, and opening of 1QHa to establish what material came from the wadded bundle and whether there is evidence that the bundles belonged to the same scroll. I also discuss different scenarios for how the folded and wadded bundles of 1QHa might have been formed and which of them offers the most plausible explanation for the state of the material evidence.

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18 Finds from the Qumran Caves: Roland de Vaux’s Inventory of the Excavations (1949–1956)

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Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its Archaeological Assemblage

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