The inclusion of these gods was a surprise ... They believe the sculpture was buried there during the Hellenistic period, between the second and third centuries B.C. But information on the ...

530 so-called 'astragali,' dating to Hellenistic period 2,300 years ago, found in southern Israel; inscribed in Greek with names of deities Aphrodite, Eros, Hermes, Hera, and Nike ...

It also contains a fish-like deity, who grants the gods and the sovereign salvation ... Researchers suspect it was dug out during the Hellenistic period in the third or second century BC.

“The pair of gods Hauron and Heracles were considered the divine patrons of Yavne during the Hellenistic period,” explained Prof. Yulia Ustinova from Ben-Gurion University of the ...