Salvage excavation near Ibreika uncovers Roman-period wooden coffin handles designed as lifting grips, not decorative door knockers. The bronze lion-head coffin handles with rings were found in a stone-lined cist grave dating to the first or second century CE, shedding light on Roman funerary practices in Syria-Palaestina.
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