{"id":100,"date":"2009-01-28T23:51:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-12-09T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T09:46:11","slug":"above-1800-years-old-marble-head-unearthed-in-israel-research-with-archaeologistabove-1800-years-old-marble-head-unearthed-in-israel-research-with-archaeologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2009\/01\/above-1800-years-old-marble-head-unearthed-in-israel-research-with-archaeologistabove-1800-years-old-marble-head-unearthed-in-israel-research-with-archaeologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Above 1,800 years old marble head unearthed in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"World Archaeologist Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/archaeologist_view.php\"><strong>Archaeologists<\/strong><\/a> in <a title=\"Isrel Archaeology Researches\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/Israel_archaeological_place.php\"><strong>Israel<\/strong><\/a> have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/discoveries.htm\"><strong>discovered<\/strong><\/a> what they believed in it is the bust of a <strong>Roman boxer<\/strong> from the <strong>second<\/strong> or <strong>third century<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIt seems that what we have be here is a unique find, then the two directors of the excavation said in a statement released Monday by the<strong> Israel <\/strong>Antiquities Authority of the <a title=\"Archaeology compitutional Research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/computational_archaeology.htm\"><strong>archaeology Research<\/strong>.<\/a><br \/>\nThe figurine, made of the marble, comes from a time when  in the art of <strong>Roman sculpture<\/strong> is reached in its zenith,  Doron Ben Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets .<br \/>\nIt is tiny only about 6 centimeters height by 4 centimeters width, Ben Ami told in CNN  That is why it is so much impressive. It is so small, but still you can see every little detail on the marble.<br \/>\nThe <strong>archaeologists<\/strong> believed to a merchant family from the eastern part of the Roman Empire most in likely passed down the precious object  through in to the generations of until the<strong> fourth<\/strong> or <strong>fifth century<\/strong>, when an unfortunate family member had it with him at a public building, perhaps a hostel  and an <strong>earthquake struck<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists in Israel have been discovered what they believed in it is the bust of a Roman boxer from the second or third century. It seems that what we have be here is a unique find, then the two directors of the excavation said in a statement released Monday by the Israel Antiquities Authority of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerial-archaeology","tag-archaeologists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}