Maresha (English Wikipedia)

Mysterious Caves of Maresha by Ian Stern at academia.edu. Three fragments of a Greek inscription, believed to be part of the Heliodoros stele were recently found at an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation at the National Park of Beit Guvrin.

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Israel Antiquities Authority, Excavators and Excavations Permit for Year 2010, Survey Permit # A-5808; Excavators and Excavations Permit for Year 2013, Survey Permit # A-6701; Excavators and Excavations Permit for Year 2014, Survey Permit # A-7015

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Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. p. 262.

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Joshua 15:44)
2 Chronicles 11:5–10
2 Chronicles 14:9–12
1 Maccabees 5:66
Translated in the Douai-Rheims edition (1899) as passing through Samaria: 1 Maccabees 5:66

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Negev, Avraham; Gibson, Shimon (2001). "Mareshah (Tell); Marissa; Sandahannah (Tell)". Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land. New York and London: Continuum. p. 315. ISBN 0826413161. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
Ameling, Walter; Cotton, Hannah M.; Eck, Werner; Ecker, Avner; Isaac, Benjamin; Kushnir-Stein, Alla, eds. (2018). Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae / Palaaestinae. Vol. IV: Iudaea / Idumaea. Part 2: 3325–3978. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 939. ISBN 978-3-11-054364-3.

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"The Madaba Mosaic Map web site". Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2014-03-24.

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Kloner, Amos; et al. (2003). "Introduction". Maresha Excavations Final Report I: Subterranean Complexes 21, 44, 70. IAA Reports. Vol. 17. Israel Antiquities Authority. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1fzhfp4. JSTOR j.ctt1fzhfp4. Retrieved 31 August 2024. Maresha (Marisa, Marissa) ... Maresha (Marissa is the Greek form of the Hebrew name)

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Josephus, Antiquities Book xxii chapter 9 paragraph 1

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Huge Number of Knucklebones for Prophecy and Games Discovered in Biblical Maresha

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Exhibitions – The Heliodorus Stele

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Kloner, Amos; et al. (2003). "Introduction". Maresha Excavations Final Report I: Subterranean Complexes 21, 44, 70. IAA Reports. Vol. 17. Israel Antiquities Authority. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1fzhfp4. JSTOR j.ctt1fzhfp4. Retrieved 31 August 2024. Maresha (Marisa, Marissa) ... Maresha (Marissa is the Greek form of the Hebrew name)
Regev, Dalit (2023). "Sidonians at Marisa (Maresha)". 'Atiqot / עתיקות. 110: 65–82. ISSN 0792-8424. JSTOR 27204900.

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Amateur Archaeologists Get the Dirt on the Past, New York Times

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Josephus (Antiquities 12.8.6.; 12.350)

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"Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves". UNESCO.

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"The Madaba Mosaic Map web site". Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2014-03-24.

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Regev, Dalit (2023). "Sidonians at Marisa (Maresha)". 'Atiqot / עתיקות. 110: 65–82. ISSN 0792-8424. JSTOR 27204900.
Chapmann III, R.L.; Taylor, J.E., eds. (2003). Palestine in the Fourth Century A.D.: The Onomasticon by Eusebius of Caesarea. Translated by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville. Jerusalem: Carta. p. 72. ISBN 965-220-500-1. OCLC 937002750.
Peters, J.P.; Thiersch, Hermann (1905). Cook, Stanley A. (ed.). Painted Tombs in the Necropolis of Marissa. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. pp. 36, 38. OCLC 1854067. Apollophanes, [son of] Sesmaios, thirty-three years chief of the Sidonians at Marise, reputed the best and most kin-loving of all those of his time; he died, having lived seventy-four years; see also the Greek inscription in NEAEHL, Vol. 3, ed. by E. Stern, Jerusalem 1993, p. 955.
Lepinski, Nadav (n.d.). "Tell Maresha". In Ben-Yosef, Sefi (ed.). Israel Guide – Judaea (A useful encyclopedia for the knowledge of the country) (in Hebrew). Vol. 9. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, in affiliation with the Israel Ministry of Defence. p. 327. OCLC 745203905.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
Lepinski, Nadav (n.d.). "Tell Maresha". In Ben-Yosef, Sefi (ed.). Israel Guide – Judaea (A useful encyclopedia for the knowledge of the country) (in Hebrew). Vol. 9. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, in affiliation with the Israel Ministry of Defence. p. 325. OCLC 745203905.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
Benvenishti, Meron; Lepinski, Nadav, eds. (n.d.). "Beit Gubrin". Israel Guide – Judaea (in Hebrew). Vol. 9. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House. p. 255. OCLC 745203905.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)