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JERUSALEM.- Two weeks ago, during an archaeological excavation currently underway in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, headed by Dr. Kate Rafael of the Israel Antiquities Authority, a ceramic mouthpiece of a pipe was uncovered that bears the Arabic inscription: “Heart is language for the lover” (literal translation), meaning: love is language for the lovers. According to Shahar Puni of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “Oftentimes in archaeological excavations remains are revealed including monumental inscriptions (institutional), some of which are of religious value, some commemorating a donor, etc. Along with these we sometimes find inscriptions that are of a personal nature: verses of a poem, congratulations and other quotations from which we can learn about daily life and even emotional matters between a man and woman… Clay pipes of this kind were very common in the Ottoman period (16th-19th cent read full article
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