{"id":34,"date":"2004-08-09T22:10:40","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T05:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2004-08-09T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T05:10:40","slug":"unknown-archaeologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/unknown-archaeologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Archaeologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are maybe two other people who would appreciate this and almost certainly they won&#8217;t see this, but nonetheless, for my own amusement, I proceed.  I was reading tonight an article in Artifax, sourced to the Jerusalem Post (and here&#8217;s an online quotation of <a href=\"http:\/\/paleojudaica.blogspot.com\/2004_06_20_paleojudaica_archive.html\">relevant section<\/a>).  The article describes the recent excavations of the Pool of Siloam and mentions that the Byzantine period pool was &#8220;discovered by archeologist <strong>Blis Vediki<\/strong> at the end of the century.&#8221;  I did a double-take, not recognizing this archaeologist.  I have taught the subject and shame on me for not knowing about this apparently important scholar!  Well, I don&#8217;t want to spoil the surprise &#8211; go back, scratch your head and see if you can figure out who <strong>Blis Vediki<\/strong> is. &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;  Actually he is two people, and the phrase was something the journalist apparently copied down in haste without bothering to check himself.  <em>Ve<\/em> is &#8220;and&#8221; in Hebrew &#8211; it&#8217;s Blis AND Diki, or more correctly, Bliss and Dickie.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pef.org.uk\/Pages\/Bliss.htm\">Frederick Jones Bliss<\/a> and Archibald Campbell Dickie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are maybe two other people who would appreciate this and almost certainly they won&#8217;t see this, but nonetheless, for my own amusement, I proceed. I was reading tonight an article in Artifax, sourced to the Jerusalem Post (and here&#8217;s an online quotation of relevant section). The article describes the recent excavations of the Pool\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/unknown-archaeologist\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}