12-04-2009, 21:37
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יורם [דובוש] כהן ז"ל, איש כפר עזה, חבר בפורום הסטוריה וידיעת א"י
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חבר מתאריך: 01.10.08
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הנה הספד במותו 1914
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=950DE3DA133EE733A25753C2A9609C946596D6CF
ותאור מאתר האוניברסיטה על ביתו
In 1902 Sir John Gray Hill, a wealthy English lawyer, chose to build a house on a plot of land overlooking Jerusalem in one direction and the Dead Sea in the other. He had traveled to Palestine every year since 1887, and two years later he bought the land in question. The view was magnificent, but 13 years went by before Gray Hill and his wife decided to build. Lady Caroline Emily Gray Hill was an artist, and this was by all measures an ideal location for her studio. As one visitor later described the view from the house, it was a "vision of beauty."
During the construction, however, something totally unexpected happened. The workers found a cave, and archeologists were called in. The area was excavated, and an important discovery was made --- ossuaries with bones and jewels. There was no question to whom the burial area belonged; written were the words, "Nicanor from Alexandria."
In the case of this grave, no, do not start looking for the burial coffin in the closed-off cave. Archeologists carted it off to London in the early 20th century.
In 1914 the Gray Hill house was sold to the builders of the Hebrew University, and the area was totally redeveloped. The grave of Nicanor, though, was not destroyed. It became part of the botanical gardens, which contain the flora of Palestine. |
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