Levi Rahmani
Levi Yizhaq Rahmani was an Israeli archeologist and Chief Curator of Israel Antiquities Authority, and notable for his work on tombs, ossuaries and ossilegia 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 1 102-1 12, figs.
- L. Y. Rahmani, Roman Tombs in Shmuel HaNavi Street, Jerusalem, IEJ 10 140-149
- L. Y. Rahmani, Jewish Tombs in the Romema.
- L. Y. Rahmani, The Decoration on Jewish Ossuaries as Representation of Jerusalem's Tombs
- Papers on the archaeology of Jewish tombs during the Second Temple period, 1958, 1961, 1982a
- "Jason's Tomb," Israel Exploration Journal, 17.
- Levi Yitzaq Rahmani, A Catalogue of Jewish Ossuaries in the Collections of the State of Israel.
