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Title / Description: Qumran (finds): manuscript (3Q15, Copper Scroll)
Object Location: Archaeological Museum in Amman, Jordan
Provenance: Qumran, Israel
Object Type: image - manuscript
Date: 2nd c. BCE - 1st c. CE

Commentary:
The one scroll at Qumran (3Q15) that is inscribed, not on parchment or papyrus but on copper, contains a list of treasures supposedly buried in the Judaean desert.

For another view of the scroll see Copper Scroll.

Bibliography

Translation: Florentino Garcfa Martfnez, The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English (2d ed.; Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1996) 459v4.
Author of Commentary: Harold Attridge
Source: Burrows, Millar Millar Burrows slide collection
Reference: QUMRAN (finds): manuscript (3Q15, Copper Scroll)


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