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Source: http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-mtzion1-2009aug01,0,3421802.story
2,000-Year-Old Ritual Cup Found in Jerusalem
[Los Angeles Times] Thomas H. Maugh II - U.S. archaeologists have found an extremely rare 2,000-year-old limestone cup inscribed with 10 lines of Aramaic or Hebrew script near the Zion Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. "To have 10 lines of text is unprecedented," archaeologist Shimon Gibson of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte said Wednesday. Researchers are not yet able to decipher it because the text is in an informal cursive script and is apparently deliberately cryptic.