The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . ions in the Hebrew charac-ter, a little more rounded than the square Chaldee, issometimes not genuine. I have a very fine one, but asit may be apochryphal, I give a fac-similie of a genuineshekel, for which I am indebted to the friendly courtesyof J, Y. Ackermann, the shekel which bears j^^^the name of Surion, Bro-ther to Indas Maccabeus,the legend round the sheafis for the deliverance of Jerusalem. In the half-shekel, the words round the cup are Jerusalem theholy. The third
The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . ions in the Hebrew charac-ter, a little more rounded than the square Chaldee, issometimes not genuine. I have a very fine one, but asit may be apochryphal, I give a fac-similie of a genuineshekel, for which I am indebted to the friendly courtesyof J, Y. Ackermann, the shekel which bears j^^^the name of Surion, Bro-ther to Indas Maccabeus,the legend round the sheafis for the deliverance of Jerusalem. In the half-shekel, the words round the cup are Jerusalem theholy. The third part of a shekel was the amount ofthe tax laid on the people, (Neh. x. 33.) The shekelweighs rather less than half-an-ounce, and its value isabout 25. 3^. In Athens, around the censer (or thurihidum) withincense, are the words Schekel Israel—The Shekelof Israel; and on the reverse is a Branch with thewords Jerouschalaim Hakedoscha—Jerusalem, theHoly. It is interesting to compare this censer withthat on the golden table in the has relief of the archof Titus at Rome, represented in Plate II., fig. 11; T 2. 292 the resemblance is certainly very striking. Whetherthe foliage is to be considered as representing the opo-balsamum ; or the rod of Aaron, which blossomed, andwas deposited, as well as the golden vessel which con-tained a specimen of the manna which fell in thewilderness, in the ark or sacred depository of the tablesof the law, must be left to conjecture. The shekel, inthe days of Josephus, was somewhat larger than theancient shekel. Those with Samaritan inscriptionsare assigned to a period some centuries before thechristian era. The Jews do not appear to have evercoined gold; hence the double shekels, shekels, andhalf-shekels, &c., are in silver. The legends are simi-lar in all of them, but the symbols are somewhat some Jewish coins, about the time of Agrippa, andwhose name appears on a few of them, there arebranches, grapes, ears of corn, a canopy, &.C., all
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