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The Cave of Nicanor (/naɪˈkeɪnər/ny-KAY-nər; Ancient Greek: Νῑκάνωρ, pronounced[niːˈkanɔːr]) is an ancient burial cave located on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. Among the ossuaries discovered in the cave is one with an inscription referring to "Nicanor the door maker".[1] The cave is located in the National Botanic Garden of Israel on the grounds of the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Nicanor belonged to a wealthy Alexandrian Jewish family. He is mentioned in the works of the Roman Jewish historian Josephus and the Talmud as the donor of the bronze doors of the Court of the Women in the Second Temple in Jerusalem.[citation needed] This fact is also inscribed in Greek on his ossuary, which is a rare case of archaeology supporting facts stated by written sources.
^Clermont-Ganneau, "Archeological and epigraphic notes on Palestine," Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement, 1903, pp. 125–131; Gladys Dikson, "The tomb of Nicanor of Alexandria," Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement, 1903, pp. 326–332.
7931889; 35.2448778 The CaveofNicanor (/naɪˈkeɪnər/ ny-KAY-nər; Ancient Greek: Νῑκάνωρ, pronounced [niːˈkanɔːr]) is an ancient burial cave located on Mount...
identified as Nicanorof Alexandria, who donated one of the gates of Herod's Temple. The cave is located in the National Botanic Garden of Israel. There...
organized the re-interment of Leon Pinsker in NicanorCave on Mount Scopus in an attempt to build a pantheon for the great leaders of the Jewish nation. Ussishkin...
probably also meant as a nefesh for the adjacent burial cave system known as the Cave or Tomb of Jehoshaphat, with which it forms one entity, built at the...
burial caves. From Biblical times until the present, Jews have been buried on the Mount of Olives. The necropolis on the southern ridge, the location of the...
Church of the Sepulchre of Saint Mary, also Tomb of the Virgin Mary (Hebrew: קבר מרים; Arabic: قبر السيدة العذراء مريم; Greek: Τάφος της Παναγίας; Armenian:...
Hadrian began the building of a Roman colony, the new city of Aelia Capitolina, on the site. Circa AD 135, he ordered that a cave containing a rock-cut tomb...
Prophets'; Hebrew: מערת הנביאים "Caveof the Prophets") is an ancient burial site located on the upper western slope of the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem. According...
on the rocky eastern slope of the Kidron Valley, facing the oldest part of Jerusalem. Part of the Palestinian settlement of Silwan was later built atop...
Tomb of Absalom and adjacent to the Tomb of Benei Hezir. The monument is a monolith—it is completely carved out of the solid rock The lowest part of the...
of "Nicanor" who built the doors on the First Temple in Jerusalem. In 1934, the remains of Leon Pinsker from Odessa were reburied in the Nicanorcave...
The facade of the tomb appeared differently in medieval times. One report describes a "beautiful structure" containing "caves within caves". A 1659 drawing...
Tomb of Zechariah (actually not a tomb) The Garden Tomb Tomb of Absalom CaveofNicanor Silwan necropolis Royal Steward inscription Monolithic architecture...
neighborhood of Jerusalem, adjacent to the intersection of Levi Eshkol Boulevard, Shmuel HaNavi Street, and Bar-Ilan Street. Unlike the Mount of Olives and...
community ofcave dwellers living in ancient rock-cut tombs along the face of the eastern ridge. In medieval Muslim tradition, the spring of Silwan (Ayn...
The Caveof the Ramban is located in the southern cliff of the Upper Kidron Valley, on a slope descending into the Arab neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz, Jerusalem...
translations of the same – were found in the Mamilla Pool and buried in caves in and around it. Islamic rule over Jerusalem began in 638 under the Rashidun...
burial ground lies at the western edge of the city adjacent to the neighborhood of Givat Shaul, with commanding views of Mevaseret Zion to the north, Motza...
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and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem campus, 4.5 km north of the Old City of Jerusalem. The cemetery contains the graves of 2,515 Commonwealth service...
gave its address as Ras Ab(o)u Kharoub. The caveofNicanor was discovered near the house at the beginning of the 20th century. Sir John Gray Hill died...
established as a temporary burial ground during the 1948 Arab siege of Jerusalem. Most of its military and civilian graves were transferred to Mount Herzl...
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