Among the unusual and precious artifacts from ancient times is this lead box discovered along with the various lead and gold codices.
According to Dr. Samuel Zinner: “On the left, the bottom shin is to be joined to the mem at the top, and on the right the ayin is to be correlated with the nun at the top. These give us four of the five letters of the name Shimon. The remaining letters, lamed-tav can be recognized as the second half of the word ge’ulat, ‘redemption’…”
(Son of the Star: Bar Kokhba and the Jordanian Lead Books, 2017, p.259)
