Thg lecture last night was on the Herod Philip coins many which have been found in Bethsaida. It is very interesting what a coin can tell us. Like who is in charge, who serves whom, who is honored and much more. I found that coins of the first century were usually dated. We are very close to the walls that we have been looking for, Dr. Savage numbered the ones in the locus beside us so it is a matter of time before we find them in our locus. We will probably photograph and then move rocks again tomorrow, right now it is hard to dig between the ones on top. We are finding less mixed pottery and more first century pottery which means we are approaching what is called a closed strata where the mixing will become almost nonexistant. More coins were found today, we are not sure what they are for they have not been cleaned. Yesterday we found one of the Roman nails in our locus. And we found an oil lamp also. I plan to put the pictures on the blog today. Note how long and big they are. These would be the ones they used in crucifixion. Our lecture tonight is on the Crusaders again so I will probably skip it. A group of austrailians have joined us for a few days, we thought they were students with an instructor but it turns out they are just an independent group. So after having three roommates for two weeks I have a room to myself at least until Sunday evening.
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