12歲女孩發現古埃及護符

12-year-old girl finds ancient Egyptian amulet

12歲女孩發現古埃及護符

An ancient Egyptian amulet was uncovered in Jerusalem by a young girl taking part in a family dig in the capital.

耶路撒冷小女孩參加“聖殿山篩選項目”考古活動時，發現一古埃及護符。

Neshama Spielman, from Jerusalem, found the artifact four years ago at a dig organized by the City of David and the Temple Mount Sifting Project, which works to examine tons of dirt removed without archaeological supervision from the Temple Mount by the Muslim Waqf. Details of the find and its identification, however, have only now been revealed. Spielman, who is aged 12, was just 8 when she made the find.

小女孩名叫Neshama Spielman，來自耶路撒冷。她是4年前在“聖殿山篩選項目”中發現這個護符的。該項目旨在檢查從神聖猶太教遺址移來，未經考古檢測過的泥土。當年，Spielman只有8歲。

The piece was taken away for laboratory testing, and the Spielman family only received a phone call this month telling them the amulet had been identified.

後來此護符被拿去實驗室檢測，知道上個月，Spielman一家才接到電話，被告知檢測結果。

Spielman was sifting through dirt at the Emek Tzurim national park on the slopes of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem when she noticed the small rectangular object.

當時，Spielman正在耶路撒冷Emek Tzurim國家公園橄欖山的斜坡上檢查泥土。突然就注意到了這個小小的矩形物件。

Just 21 millimeters long, 16 millimeters high, and 4 millimeters thick, the amulet, of which part is missing, has a “raised decoration” on it with a loop at one end that allowed it to be worn on a cord around the neck.

該護符只有21毫米長、16毫米高、4毫米厚，部分已經缺失。上方凸起的部分有個孔，可以用繩穿起來掛在脖子上。

The raised decoration shows a cartouche — an oval frame around Egyptian hieroglyphics indicating a royal name. Above the frame archaeologists could make out the symbol of an eye and that of a cobra.

凸起那部分有個“渦卷飾品”——（古埃及碑上）在王和神的名字周圍的橢圓形裝飾。考古學家在上面發現有眼鏡蛇一隻眼的符號。

The amulet has been dated to 3,200 years ago and bears the name of Pharaoh Thutmose III, a prominent figure from the Eighteenth Dynasty who reigned from 1479 BCE to 1425 BCE.

護符距今已有3200年的歷史，上面還刻有“圖特摩斯三世”法老的名字。他於公元前1504至公元前1450年在位統治。

“Thutmose III was one of the most important pharaohs in Egypt’s New Kingdom and is credited with establishing the Egyptian imperial province in Canaan,” said Gabriel Barkay, the co-founder and director of the Temple Mount Sifting Project.

“圖特摩斯三世是埃及新王朝最重要的法老之一。他使埃及在迦南完成了從一個地域性王國向洲際大帝國的質變。”“聖殿山篩選項目”的聯合發起人和總負責人Gabriel Barkay如是說。

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