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Iruña - Veleia 5
Este verano actuará un equipo internacional.
Este verano actuará un equipo internacional
Desgraciadamente no estará constituido por profesionales como sería de esperar sino por simples y entusiastas voluntariosos.
Resumen sobre esta intervención arqueológica en Iruña-Veleia, visto en:
http://www.veleia.com/Iruna_Veleia_2007_c.pdf
y publicado por la Viceconsejería de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes
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Oppidum de Iruña-Veleia
Lugar: Iruña de Oca (Álava)
Modalidad: Arqueología.
Objetivo: Intervención arqueológica en Iruña-Veleia, ciudad de época romana
Fechas: 17-30 de julio // 1-14 de agosto
Edad: 20-26 años
Plazas: 20 (6 para jóvenes del estado español y 14 para extranjeros/as)
Tipo: Internacional
Idioma: Inglés. (Es obligatorio saber hablar bien en inglés.)
Cuota: 72 €
[...]
Los recientes hallazgos de inscRIPciones procedentes de diferentes ámbitos domésticos de esta ciudad han despertado un creciente interés, trascendiendo a la comunidad científica, como lo ha reflejado la gran cobertura por parte de los medios de comunicación. Ciertamente los descubrimientos son revolucionarios, aportando novedades tanto el ámbito de la vida cotidiana, como de los idiomas o las creencias en la Antigüedad alavesa.
[...]
intervenciones en el domus del mosaico de rosetones y en la puerta principal de la muralla
[...]
ACTIVIDADES DE ANIMACIÓN
El equipo de animación preparará una serie de actividades de cara a fomentar el conocimiento [?????] entre las personas participantes en el campo y un acercamiento a la cultura y costumbres del País Vasco (actividades deportivas, juegos, excursiones, visitas culturales…). El equipo tendrá en cuenta las propuestas de las personas voluntarias.
Estas actividades se realizarán por las tardes y los fines de semana, con la participación de todos las personas del grupo del campo de trabajo. Además, algunas de las tardes se podrán realizar actividades formativas y didácticas a
cargo del equipo de investigación del yacimiento (se propone una charla-seminario sobre la entidad de la ciudad de Iruña-Veleia, contextualizándola en el conocimiento de la etapa romana en el País Vasco), [...]
EQUIPO ACONSEJABLE
saco de dormir
ropa y guantes de trabajo
gorra o sombrero para el sol
prendas de abrigo y para la lluvia
calzado de monte y deportivo
traje de baño
[...]
Documentación que cada partipante debe llevar al campo:
- D.N.I., o tarjeta de extranjero/a o pasaporte.
- Tarjeta individual sanitaria
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Comentarios
Pulsa este icono si opinas que la información está fuera de lugar, no tiene rigor o es de nulo interés.
Tu único clic no la borarrá, pero contribuirá a que la sabiduría del grupo pueda funcionar correctamente.
Si te registras como usuario, podrás añadir comentarios a este artículo.
Pues no AsierJ, según noticia de nuestro inefable Diario de Noticias de Álava de 25 de agosto de 2005, que creo que hasta ahora no se había dado a conocer en estas páginas Veleienses, el campo de trabajo de 2005 sacó a la luz el famoso primer conjunto epigráfico que, según la noticia "está llamado a ser uno de los principales repertorios de epigrafía doméstica peninsular, tanto por el volumen de las inscRIPciones halladas como por su calidad y variedad". Dichas inscRIPciones aluden a nombres y relaciones familiares, amistad y amor, mitología, religión y festividades, así como juegos y ejercicios escolares." O sea que ya en agosto de 2005 se dio la noticia, que no tuvo repercusión hasta junio de 2006, en que se dio la famosa conferencia de prensa y apareció el egipcio y el Calvario en el discurso. Luego hablan de filtraciones.
www.noticiasdealava.com/ediciones/2005/08/25/sociedad/euskadi/d25eus12.194107.php+iru%C3%
B1a+veleia+deia&hl=es&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=es
También el diario Deaia recogió el 24 de julio de 2005 la primera noticia sobre los hallazgos, a raiz de una información sobre los campos de trabajo. En este recorte de prensa E. Gil parece dejar entrever que también existen palabras en euskera, pues en una entrevista aneja dice: "Estos autóctonos recibieron influencia de diversas culturas, como la céltica, ibérica y que duda cabe la vascónica. El euskera fue capaz de sobrevivir aquí al impacto de todas las lenguas indoeuropeas - recordó- y después al latín".
http://www.ehu.es/gabinete/webcast/2005-07-24%20Bilduma%201.pdf
Lo que pasa es que en 2005 no le hicimos nadie ni puto caso a la noticia.
Creo, de todas maneras, que debiéramos de seguir la disciplina del orden impuesto de páginas y continuar en la tercera (Iruña-Veleia 3).
Un saludo
El Iruña-Veleia IV está a puntito de petar... y si incluía esto...:
http://www.davidrowan.com/2005/05/is-oded-golan-behind-biblical.html
In October 2002, the competitive world of biblical archaeology was
rocked by the discovery of the James Ossuary, a burial box said to have
contained the remains of Jesus's brother. But doubts about its
authenticity have led to an unholy spat, which finally goes to court
next week in Jerusalem. DAVID ROWAN reports from Israel
The
small limestone vessel is either the first physical evidence that Jesus
of Nazareth existed, or the most elaborate fraud perpetrated in modern
biblical archaeology. Next week, a Jerusalem court will begin to
consider how a 20 x 11 in burial box came to bear the sensational
inscRIPtion 'James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus' - not only proof,
its owner claims, that Jesus lived, but a definitive answer to the
theological debate as to whether Mary gave him a brother. But while the
owner, a 53-year-old Tel Aviv antiquities collector named Oded Golan,
continues to insist furiously that 'the whole inscRIPtion is
authentic', Israel's state-controlled antiquities body is this week
finalising a rather more damning interpretation. After a two-year
investigation, which drew in more than 100 witnesses, it accuses Golan
of faking the inscRIPtion as head of a forgery ring that has deceived
the world's collectors and museums for the past two decades.The ring's
legacy, the prosecution claims, is one of the greatest ever treasure
troves of fraudulent biblical artifacts, which has tarnished
archaeological science, given false hope to the faithful, and belatedly
raised questions about the collections of some of the world's leading
museums, including the British Museum.
The story begins on
October 21, 2002, when Hershel Shanks, publisher of the glossy and
often polemical Biblical Archaeology Review, held a dramatic press
conference in Washington DC. A 2,000-year-old bone box, or ossuary, had
come to light, Shanks announced, which had implications 'not just for
scholarship, but for the world's understanding of the Bible'.
André
Lemaire, a leading specialist in Semitic inscRIPtions at the Sorbonne
in Paris, had spotted it by chance a few months earlier, while visiting
an Israeli collector's home in Tel Aviv. On examining the Aramaic
engraving on the box - 'Yaakov bar Yoseph, Achui de Yeshua', or 'Yaakov
son of Joseph, brother of Yeshua' - Lemaire could barely contain his
excitement. 'It seems very probable that this is the ossuary of the
James in the New Testament,' he concluded in the Biblical Archaeology
Review. 'If so, this would mean that we have here the first epigraphic
mention - from about 63AD - of Jesus of Nazareth.'
The owner's
identity remained secret at this stage. Shanks disclosed only that the
man had paid an Arab a few hundred dollars for the ossuary some years
earlier, after it had been looted from a Jerusalem cave, but had failed
to appreciate its significance. Shanks and Lemaire had shown the
inscRIPtion to Ada Yardeni, a leading Israeli epigrapher, who had
pronounced it authentic and dated the scRIPt to the first century AD.
Shanks also approached the Geological Survey of Israel to examine the
box 'scientifically'. Its laboratories studied the stone, the dirt
clinging to its sides, and more importantly the patina (the surface
residue that had built up over the centuries). The limestone, the
scientists declared, was typical of that quarried in biblical
Jerusalem. There was no evidence that modern tools had been applied,
nor, indeed, anything 'that might detract from the authenticity' of the
inscRIPtion and the patina.
There remained a debate as to
whether James - the first Bishop of Jerusalem - was the literal brother
of Jesus, and a tiny chance that the Jesus, James and Joseph in
question were just ordinary Jerusalemites with popular contemporary
names. Yet the implications of Shanks's announcement were unambiguous
enough to make headlines across the world. As Shanks, now 75, explained
breathlessly in a subsequent book, The Brother of Jesus, 'the evidence
for the inscRIPtion's authenticity is compelling ... [This] may be the
most astonishing find in the history of archaeology.'
The Royal
Ontario Museum in Toronto was first to display the artifact, in
November 2002. Just hours before it was due to be unveiled to the
media, the museum admitted that the ossuary had been seriously damaged
in transit, creating cracks that would require its conservators'
closest attention. Yet the drama was only just beginning. Even as the
James Ossuary, as it was being called, was undergoing repair, troubling
questions began to be raised about its authenticity. A crack through
the lettering, it was whispered, had caused museum staff to query the
age of some of the characters. A respected historian declared the
inscRIPtion 'too perfect, too pat'. Epigraphers, too, were debating why
the first part, 'James son of Joseph', was written in a straighter,
more formal scRIPt than the second part, which they suggested could
have been added later. There also remained doubts about the ossuary's
provenance. Golan, by now revealed as the owner, said he 'could not
remember' who had sold it to him. He was certain, however, that it had
been well before 1978, when an Israeli law declared all subsequent
acquisitions to be state property.
The Israel Antiquities
Authority (IAA) decided to launch its own inquiries, calling in
epigraphers, geoarchaeologists and other experts to examine the burial
box independently. But almost immediately, the IAA found itself having
to solve another biblical mystery. An inscribed black sandstone tablet,
apparently 3,000 years old, had been anonymously offered to Israel's
National Museum at a price reportedly over $4 million. This
inscRIPtion, too, purported to be important enough to rewrite the
history books. The IAA asked its investigators, who included Yuval
Goren, head of the archaeology department at Tel Aviv University, and
Avner Ayalon, from the Geological Survey of Israel, for their views on
this second extraordinary find.
What made the tablet special was
an inscRIPtion in ancient Hebrew with instructions from Joash, King of
Judah in the 9th century BC, for maintaining King Solomon's Temple. If
authentic, the Joash InscRIPtion, as it became known, would be
unprecedented physical evidence of the Temple's existence - 'an
archaeological sensation', the Geological Survey of Israel concluded
after an earlier brief examination, which 'effectively vindicates
Jewish claims to the Temple Mount'. Except that it soon emerged that
the mysterious middleman selling the tablet was already known to the
authorities. His name was Oded Golan.
In June 2003, the IAA's
teams of archaeologists, linguists, historians, palaeographers and
epigraphers delivered their unambiguous verdict. Both the Joash
InscRIPtion and the James Ossuary were recent forgeries. They concluded
that freshly carved letters had been covered with an imitation patina
made from modern tap water and ground chalk, mixed with ancient
charcoal to confound carbon-dating tests. The forger or forgers had
been clever: the Joash InscRIPtion contained microscopic globules of
gold, a persuasive link to the burning gold walls of Solomon's Temple.
But there had been some crucial slips. Yuval Goren discovered that the
patina on the front - but not the back - of the Joash stone contained
tiny marine fossils. This led him to conclude that the patina on this
side of the stone had been added later - and certainly could not have
formed naturally in Jerusalem, miles from the sea. Tests using an
electron microscope also identified fluorine on the surface - raising
the possibility that the patina had been cooked up using municipally
fluoridated tap water.
A month later, the police raided Golan's
Tel Aviv flat and found the James Ossuary - which he had previously
insured for $1 million - sitting on a toilet seat on the roof. (Golan
says the roof was 'safer' than his apartment, and that once his address
had been leaked to the press, 'I was afraid that it might be stolen'.)
Amir
Ganor, head of the IAA's theft unit, claimed that investigators had
also found various other forgeries in various stages of completion,
together with a 'factory' equipped to create them (materials used for
restoration work, according to Golan). Among their haul, they said,
were bags of semi-finished ancient royal seals, a blank stone with the
same dimensions as the Joash tablet, a newly engraved ossuary, and
moulds that could be used to reproduce bronze statues.
At the
end of last December, Golan and four other men were charged on 18
counts linked to the 18-month investigation. According to the
indictment, the alleged forgeries - which the men deny - 'might have
misled millions of Christians all over the world, as well as scholars
of history and archaeology worldwide'. The IAA also warned collectors
and museums in and outside Israel that their precious relics may not be
what they seem. 'We discovered only the tip of the iceberg,' its
director, Shuka Dorfman, said. But it wasn't simply the fact that the
alleged forgeries had raked in 'millions of dollars' that bothered him.
It was also that the accused 'were trying to change history'.
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In
a navy Eeyore sweatshirt and loose-fitting jeans, Oded Golan sits at
his elderly parents' living-room table in northern Tel Aviv, wearily
denouncing the case against him as 'Kafkaesque'. As his mother brings
in iced lemonade, Golan, his jet-black hair set off by a sharp,
straight nose, unflinchingly recounts the series of 'intentional
manipulations' and 'blatant lies' which he says the IAA has laid
against him. Its evidence, he says with a shrug, has less merit than
the Western case against Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Until
a couple of days ago, it seemed unlikely that this meeting would take
place. Golan, an unmarried serial entrepreneur, has been in jail for
the past month, accused of unlawfully contacting a witness. He has been
freed only after the Supreme Court's intervention, on the strict
condition that he does not leave his parents' apartment. 'They are,' he
complains, 'trying to make it impossible for me to defend myself.'
As
Golan tells it, he is simply a devoted antiquities collector caught up
in the IAA's undeclared war against the legitimate trade. 'I've
collected for 44 years, starting at the age of nine, and over time I've
purchased more than 3,000 pieces,' he says with calm self-assurance. By
his own estimate, Golan - a property developer, software entrepreneur
and former airline agent - owns 'probably the largest private
collection of biblical archaeology in the world', much of it displayed
on his parents' shelves and in his own apartment. 'The IAA and the
police claim that Oded Golan sold hundreds of forgeries and antiquities
for dozens of years for millions of dollars,' he says, slipping
detachedly into the third person. 'But in all this time, I've sold or
exchanged antiquities on less than 10 occasions. That tells you the
whole story in one sentence.'
The charge sheet, which ranges
from forgery to suborning others to commit perjury, lists Golan in
various combinations with his co-defendants: Robert Deutsch, who owns
three antiquities shops in Tel Aviv and Jaffa; Shlomo Cohen, who used
to run a Jerusalem antiques shop; Rafi Brown, a former conservator at
the Israel Museum; and Faiz El Amlah, a West Bank Palestinian. The 18
charges cover the James Ossuary and the Joash InscRIPtion, as well as
various inscribed pottery shards, clay seals, a jug, a bowl and a
decorative lamp.
According to the indictment, the alleged
forgery ring has claimed some astonishingly high-profile victims over
the years. In 1988, the Israel Museum, the country's pre-eminent
custodian of Holy Land art and archaeology, put on display a revered
inscribed pomegranate carved from a hippo's tooth, bearing the words
'Holy to the priests, Temple of [Yahwe]h'. André Lemaire, the French
expert on ancient lettering, discovered the carving in a Jerusalem
antiquities shop, and, as with the ossuary, unhesitatingly testified to
its importance - leading the museum, until recently, to link it beyond
doubt to the First Jewish Temple. So keen, indeed, was the museum to
acquire such a precious relic that it paid $550,000 to an anonymous
collector in a transaction involving numbered Swiss bank deposit boxes.
To its great embarrassment, a few days before charges were brought
against Golan and his alleged associates, the museum announced that,
following tests by Yuval Goren, this inscRIPtion too was a modern
forgery.
'It was very hard for the investigating committee to
say the pomegranate was a fake,' recalls Uzi Dahari, the IAA's deputy
director, who commissioned Goren's forensic tests. 'This was the first
evidence from the Temple in Jerusalem. For religious people on the
committee, it broke their hearts to say it was a forgery. The Joash
InscRIPtion too, it's something unique for the Jewish people. But what
can we do? Truth is above everything.'
The IAA, whose main
business is to license dealers and regulate excavations, has pursued
Golan with utter determination. In bringing the charges, jointly with
the police, the authority has built up 10,000 pages of written evidence
as well as hours of video and audio interviews, and the court case is
expected to last months - if not a year.
Yet on paper, the
indictments appear oddly incomplete. If Golan is at the head of a
'ring', in none of the 18 charges is he linked with more than one other
defendant. He alone stands accused over the ossuary, the Joash tablet,
the bowl and the lamp; and although Robert Deutsch is jointly charged
with him over some pottery shards, a decanter and some clay seals,
Deutsch by himself has to answer charges over three further pottery
pieces. And although the pomegranate is included as evidence of a
'ring', none of the defendants is charged in connection with it.
These
apparent omissions may stem from the difficulty of proof: forgers,
after all, would hardly leave a trail of receipts, and in the world of
unprovenanced antiquities, it is common practice for buyers not to know
a seller's name. But the gaps have given the defendants an opportunity
to cast doubt on the entire case. Golan promises to sue Dahari for
damaging his name - once, of course, he has cleared himself. Deutsch,
for his part, says he will sue the IAA 'for at least $20 million'. 'I
haven't seen Golan in eight years,' Deutsch insists in his shop, on a
winding path in old Jaffa. 'Now I have clients asking me if the pieces
they bought from me are genuine, people who owe me money not wanting to
pay me, friends not talking to me. They really achieved what they
wanted with that monstrous fabrication - to destroy my name.'
Golan,
in particular, seems to enjoy parrying each IAA accusation with a
confidently asserted put-down. How could he afford to build his vast
collection? He is independently wealthy, he says, through his family's
'50 or 60 properties'. How does he account for the 124 witnesses the
prosecution has to call on? 'Lawyers tell me that when you have a case,
you need two or three witnesses,' Golan says. 'When you don't have
anything, you need hundreds.' As for the 'ring', no professional
fraudsters would produce such a wide range of items, he insists. 'If
you're a specialist in making sculptures, you'll make sculptures. If
you make inscRIPtions on pottery shards, you'll see dozens of those on
the market.
'You need palaeographers. You need the best expert
in the world to write the Joash InscRIPtion in ancient Hebrew. Then you
need the best expert in Egyptian hieroglyphics to make the bowl. Where
are the epigraphers? Where are the chemists? It's Oded Golan, Oded
Golan. He's Superman!'
And the ossuary, now widely discredited?
'I'm still sure now, as close to 100 per cent as possible, that the
whole inscRIPtion is authentic,' Golan says without breaking eye
contact. 'So Yuval Goren finds the patina is not in its natural
condition. That's because the inscRIPtion has been cleaned. All the
world's important pieces have been cleaned. Just examine the Mona Lisa
and you'll find varnish that didn't exist 500 years ago.'
++++
Pinned
to the wall in Yuval Goren's laboratory at Tel Aviv University is a
cutting from a recent edition of Nature magazine. 'Indiana Goren,' it
is headlined. 'At 48 years old, intense and good-looking, Goren could
easily be the model for the hero of an archaeological detective series
...'
After two years on the case, Goren says he now regrets
being thrust into the role of fraud-buster. He had not realised quite
how venomous the arcane world of archaeological scholarship could be:
his own reputation has repeatedly been smeared by those who refuse to
accept that the ossuary is fake, with suggestions that he is out of his
depth, or the lure of "fame" has tarnished his judgment.
Hershel
Shanks, who still refuses to recant the validation he initially lent to
the ossuary ('I don't know if it's a forgery or not,' he says curtly.
'I'm just a publisher, not a scholar'), accuses Goren of doing 'a very
bad job' in rejecting the inscRIPtion. 'He doesn't know anything about
palaeography, and nobody has shown that anything's wrong
palaeographically,' Shanks says dismissively. 'At best, you have a
conflict of experts.' The IAA's Dahari, in turn, has publicly attacked
Shanks as 'totally crazy' and his assertions as 'pathetic'.
For
a case focusing on biblical provenance, there has been an unholy level
of bickering. One of Robert Deutsch's biggest customers was the London
multi-millionaire Shlomo Moussaieff, to whom Deutsch dedicated a book
last year on his 80th birthday. Moussaieff is mentioned in nine of the
charges as a target of the alleged fraudsters, and is said to have paid
$200,000 for an inscribed pottery shard, and to have written a $1
million cheque for a royal seal. Deutsch, in his shop, now attacks his
former client in terms that would make a libel judge blanche.
Moussaieff did not respond to requests for comments.
The
fighting has also extended to those not directly linked to the case.
And if institutions besides the Israel Museum have displayed
biblical-era forgeries, they are not admitting it. The Royal Ontario
Museum claims to have 'no new information pertaining to the James
Ossuary that would lead us to conclude that it is not authentic'. The
British Museum, too, says it knows nothing about any alleged fakes in
its displays.
But on strictly scientific grounds, Yuval Goren
claims that there is no question that the James Ossuary is a fake -
'and not a very sophisticated one at that'. Of almost 100 other items
he examined in this case, 'only 10 to 20', he says, proved to be
genuine. Sitting in his basement laboratory, Goren explains that he now
understands a little more about the faker's mindset. 'The motive is not
necessarily financial,' he reflects. 'The Piltdown fraud wasn't for
money, nor were those of Shinichi Fujimura in Japan, who created his
own sites and excavated them. No, it's often fame or the mental
challenge. They're well-informed autodidacts who feel marginalised by
the academy. So they're flattered when people like us show interest.
I'm sure the forger behind this was very happy to outsmart some of
these distinguished professors.'
With a certain mischievous
humour, Goren offers to share with me the secrets of faking a priceless
ancient inscRIPtion. First, he says, always carve your letters using an
iron tool, which will leave no traces of modern nickel or cadmium.
Next, 'age' the inscRIPtion using an airbrush filled with quartz
powder, before creating its 'ancient' patina by grinding stone into a
watery paste. Burn tiny amounts of pure gold on to the surface, plus a
bit of iron-age charcoal, and then bake your stone at 300C. Finally,
bring in a few 'innocent scientists' to confirm its authenticity before
surreptitiously sneaking it on to the market.
(The Daily Telegraph Magazine, May 14 2005)
me
ha hecho pensar: podría darse por ejemplo un arquólogo-pirata o
grupo-pirata que anunciase el descubrimiento arquológico del siglo,
enseñarlo, y por detrás, haciéndose pasar por un listillo, podría haber
uno vendiendo piezas del sensacional descubrimiento a los nuevos ricos
snobs que necesitan demostrar su estatus con esa clase de
exibiciones... ay mi pérfida imaginación...
por cierto... eso de
falsificar cociendo la inscRIPción y las pátinas falsas a 300 grados...
qué pasó en aquella "cámara sellada en el tiempo" ????
es para descojonarse o no ?
tradushion... de lo escrito en negrita, claro
En octubre del 2002 el mundo competitivo de la arqueología bíblica fué
revolucionado con el sensacional descubrimiento del osário de Jacob,
una caja funerária de la que se dijo contubo los restos del hermano de
Jesús. Pero las dudas sobre su autenticidad llevaron hacia una pelea
poco espiritual la cual finalmente llega al tribunal la semana que
viene en Jerusalen.
"Jacob, hijo de José, hermano de Jesús"
acusa a Golan de falsificar la inscRIPción como cabeza de un grupo
de falsificadores que ha engañado coleccionistas y museos en las
últimas dos décadas. El legado del grupo, acusa el fiscal, es la
de la falsificación de los mayores hallazgos arqueológicos bíblicos,
desprestigiando así el mundo de la arqueología y dando falsas
esperanzas a los creyentes, y también se pregunta veladamente sobre el
proceder de algunos de los más prestigiosos museos del mundo,
incluyendo el British Museum.
Shanks acudió al grupo de Investigasciones Geológicas de Israel para
analizar la caja científicamente. Los laboratiorios estudiaron la
piedra, la suciedad incrustada en sus lados, y lo que más, la pátina
(los resíduos exteriores creados por el tiempo). La piedra, declaró el
laboratorio, era típica de la zona de Jerusalen. No se halló
interferéncias de herramientas modernas, ni realmente nada "que pueda
ensombrecer su autenticidad" de la inscRIPción y de la pátina.
Un respetado historiador declaró que la inscRIPción era "demasiado
perfecta, muy exacta". Los epigrafistas, también, debatieron por qué la
primera parte "Jacob hijo de José" estaba escrita de una forma recta y
más formal que la segunda parte, que según ellos pudo ser añadida
posteriormente.
Una lápida inscrita aparéntemente hacia 3000 años, fué ofrecida
anónimamente al Museo Nacional de Israel al precio de 4 millones de
dólares.
escrita en hebráico antiguo con instrucciones del rey Joash, que
governó Judá en el siglo IX aC para mantener el Templo del Rey Salomón.
Si fuese auténtica, la InscRIPción de Joash, tal como se acabó
conociendo, se hubiera convertido en la prueba física capital sobre la
existéncia del Templo - "un éxito arqueológico"
... "que reivindicaba con efectividad las reclamas judías sobre el Monte del Templo"
una imitación de pátina hecha con agua corriente y cálcio, mezclada con carbón antiguo para confundir los análisis de carbono.
identificó una preséncia de fluorina en la superfície -
posibilitando la creéncia que la pátina fué cocida usando agua
municipal fluorizada.
otras más falsificaciones en diferentes estados de acabado, junto a un "laboratório" equipado para crearlas
"podría haber confundido a millones de cristianos en todo el mundo,
como a académicos de la história y de la arqueología por todo el mundo"
Pero no era sólamente el hecho de que las falsificaciones recabaron
millones de dólares los que más le preocupó. Fué más el hecho que los
acusados "intentaron cambiar la história"
Museo de Israel ..... un diente de hipopótamo con la inscRIPción "Santo para los sacerdotes, Templo de Yahvé"
$550,000
falsificación moderna
"Los motivos no son necesáriamente económicos"... "No, muchas veces
es por la fama" ... "De tal manera que se engreen cuando gente como
nosotros muestran interés"
Primero, dice, grava tus letras usando una herramienta de hierro, la
cual no de ja trazos de niquel o cádmio modernos. Luego enevejece la
inscRIPción usando un cepillo de dientes con polvo de cuarzo, antes de
crear la pátina "antigua" triturando piedra en una masa acuosa. Quema
pequeños trozos de oro en la superfície, junto a un poco de carbón de
la Edad del Hierro, y luego cuece tu piedra a 300 grados. Finalmente,
llevala a algunos "científicos inocentes" para confirmar su
autenticidad antes de intentar intrododuciarlas furtívamente en el
mercado.
(The Daily Telegraph Magazine, May 14 2005)
me
ha hecho pensar: podría darse por ejemplo un arquólogo-pirata o
grupo-pirata que anunciase el descubrimiento arquológico del siglo,
enseñarlo, y por detrás, haciéndose pasar por un listillo, podría haber
uno vendiendo piezas del sensacional descubrimiento a los nuevos ricos
snobs que necesitan demostrar su estatus con esa clase de
exibiciones... ay mi pérfida imaginación...
por cierto... eso de
falsificar cociendo la inscRIPción y las pátinas falsas a 300 grados...
qué pasó en aquella "cámara sellada en el tiempo" ????
es para descojonarse o no ?
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