Levi Yizhaq Rahmani (Hebrew: לוי יצחק רחמני, d. 3 September 2013) was an Israeli archeologist and Chief Curator of Israel Antiquities Authority,[1] and notable for his work on tombs, ossuaries and ossilegia (bone gatherings) in the Second Temple period.
Ossuaries are generally catalogued as "Rahmani no.
9", etc., following the numbering in Rahmani's 1994 catalogue.
[2] Rahmani's work includes explanations of why sometimes iron nails were found in some tombs - unrelated to Roman crucifixion nails,[3] and the earlier dating of tombs.
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