The Dead Sea Scrolls

Harding, G. Lankester

doi:10.1179/peq.1949.81.2.112

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“…Whatever jars were bought by Sukenik in November 1947, now in the Israel Museum, these were then not the first two jars, but others taken from the cave. One of these has loop handles, one does not (see Taylor 2016a The excavation took place between February 15 and March 5, 1949 (Harding 1955, 6;Trever 1977, 148), and is described not only by Harding (1949) andde Vaux (1949b) in separate articles and jointly in the publication in DJD 1 (Harding 1955;de Vaux 1955), but also helpfully by the director of the American School, Ovid Sellers (Sellers 1949), who took a number of photographs. In recording the pottery, de Vaux (1949b, 586) noted the proximity of the site of Qumran and labelled items with the prefix 'Q' followed by a number (Q1, Q2, Q3 etc.…”

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“…They confirmed the cave collapse that had cracked the jars in the centre of the cave, with about 50 centimetres of fill and rocky collapse there. In addition, there were 15 centimetres of animal dung in the central part of the cave (Harding 1949), including 'several large lumps of coagulated animal droppings' (Harding 1955, 6) under which there was linen and a fragment of papyrus (Harding 1949, 115), indicating rodents ate the spilled 'skin' contents of the jars (avoiding the plant-based materials of linen and papyrus) and left their dung on top (Crowfoot 1955, 18). Manuscript damage indicated that both rodents and white ants had fed on the manuscript leather (Harding, 1949, 114), exposed when the jars had smashed as a result of the collapse.…”

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Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its Archaeological Assemblage

Taylor

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Fidanzio

2017

Palestine Exploration Quarterly

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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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Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its Archaeological Assemblage

Taylor

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Fidanzio

2017

Palestine Exploration Quarterly

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“…The original provenance of the linen pieces in the PEF is described in a short article by G. Lankester Harding (1949). Harding, then working with the Antiquities Department of Jordan, excavated Cave 1 in 1949 with Father Roland de Vaux of the École Biblique et Archéologique Français.…”

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Qumran Textiles in the Palestine Exploration Fund, London: Radiocarbon Dating Results

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Rasmussen²,

Doudna³

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Palestine Exploration Quarterly

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Storage Conditions and Physical Treatments Relating to the Dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Caldararo

1995

Radiocarbon

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The Dead Sea Scrolls have been analyzed by paleographic, non-destructive and destructive testing. The dates of their creation have been in dispute since their discovery. Research has established their authenticity, but a variety of conditions including the methods of skin preparation, variation in storage conditions and post-discovery restoration treatments could have introduced changes now affecting dating efforts. Comprehensive analyses were not possible until recently. Such analysis must be performed to establish a concrete framework for all the texts.Professor R. B. Blake told a story in response to a question of why so little remained of writing on leather. He said that on one of his expeditions to Asia Minor, one of his native servants exhibited proudly some chamois trousers of his own manufacture, upon which Professor Blake detected with sorrow, traces of medieval writing (Reed 1972).

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The Dead Sea Scrolls

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Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its Archaeological Assemblage

Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its Archaeological Assemblage

Qumran Textiles in the Palestine Exploration Fund, London: Radiocarbon Dating Results

Storage Conditions and Physical Treatments Relating to the Dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls

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