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268:. "Helena had a golden candlestick made over the door of the Temple," to which statement is added that when the sun rose its rays were reflected from the candlestick and everybody knew that it was the time for reading the
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According to
Josephus, the palace was built by (the otherwise unknown) "Grapte, a kinswoman" of Izates. The palace of Queen Helena is believed to have been discovered by archaeologist
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told her that she must observe her vow anew, and she therefore lived as a
Nazirite for seven more years. At the end of the second seven years she became ritually impure by
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in the nineteenth century. However, he believed the bones inside, wrapped in shrouds with golden embroidery, were the remains of the wife of a
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maintained the simpler explanation—that
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Sophene, Gordyene, and
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Her son having gone to war, Helena made a vow that if he should return safe, she would become a
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and pottery as well as remnants of ancient frescoes. The basement level contained a
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bearing two inscriptions was found there, the funerary epigram reading in
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read when a wife suspected of infidelity was brought before him. In the
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for distribution among the sufferers from the famine. In the Talmud, in
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in 2007. It was a monumental building located in the
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iii. 8, the candlestick and the plate are confused.
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636:"Nouvelles Observations – D'épigraphie hébraïque"
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346:north of Jerusalem. The catacombs are known as "
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376:The sarcophagus of Helena was discovered by
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386:First Temple period
327:of Queen Helena in
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190:Kirakos Gandzaketsi
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156:. Helena became a
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547:Yoma 37b;
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238:Jerusalem
200:Biography
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549:Tosefta
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