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‘Atiqot 89 (2017)
ISBN 2948-040X
Leather Fragments from a Tomb in the Byzantine Monastery in Nahal Qidron, Jerusalem
(pp. 111–112)
Naama Sukenik
Keywords: Byzantine period, monastery, Christianity, leather, sandals
Several pieces of leather were found among the bones in the southern burial chamber in the eastern burial complex. They were identified as the soles of a pair of sandals or closed shoes. It is assumed that the deceased were buried with their clothes due to the belief in the resurrection of the body.