Levi Yizhaq Rahmani ( he, לוי יצחק רחמני, d. 3 September 2013) was an Israeli archeologist and Chief Curator of

Israel Antiquities Authority The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA, he, רשות העתיקות ; ar, داﺌرة الآثار, before 1990, the Israel Department of Antiquities) is an independent Israeli governmental authority responsible for enforcing the 1978 Law of ...

, and notable for his work on tombs,

ossuaries An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the ...

and ''ossilegia'' (bone gatherings) in the Second Temple period. Ossuaries are generally catalogued as "Rahmani no. 9", etc., following the numbering in Rahmani's 1994 catalogue. Rahmani's work includes explanations of why sometimes iron nails were found in some tombs - unrelated to Roman crucifixion nails, and the earlier dating of tombs.

Works

* L. Y. Rahmani, Ossuaries and Bone-Gathering in the Late Second Temple Period, Qad 1 1 (1978) 102-1 12, figs. (Hebrew) * L. Y. Rahmani, Roman Tombs in Shmuel HaNavi Street, Jerusalem, IEJ 10(1960) 140-149 * L. Y. Rahmani, Jewish Tombs in the Romema . * L. Y. Rahmani, The Decoration on Jewish Ossuaries as Representation of Jerusalem's Tombs (unpublished English abstract of doctoral dissertation in Hebrew, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1977) * Papers on the archaeology of Jewish tombs during the Second Temple period, 1958, 1961, 1982a * "Jason's Tomb," Israel Exploration Journal, 17 (1967). * Levi Yitzaq Rahmani, A Catalogue of Jewish Ossuaries in the Collections of the State of Israel (Jerusalem:

, 1994).ULI Holdings: קטלוג של גלוסקמאות יהודיות : קטלוג של גלוסקמאות יהודיות : מאוספי מדינת ישראל Main Author: רחמני, לוי יצחק. Rahmani, Levi Yizhaq. Format: Book. . Published .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahmani, Levi Israeli archaeologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people)