Stealing doesn't pay: A pair of two-thousand-year-old slingstones were returned to the museum in Beer Sheva, with a note attached to them: "The stones brought me a lot of trouble.".
The slingstones were stolen from the Gamla site 20 years ago. Amos Cohen, an employee of the Museum of Islamic Culture and the Peoples of the East in Beersheba, opened a bag left in the compound's courtyard about a week ago and was amazed: In the bag lay two slingstones with a diameter of about 15 cm, with a note attached to them with the following inscription:
""These are two Roman balustrade balls from the Gamla site that I stole in July 1995, from a residential area at the foot of the peak, And since then they have brought me a lot of trouble, "Please don't steal antiques!""
The Israel Antiquities Authority says that 2,000 similar stones were found in Gamla, and they were used by the Romans who tried to conquer the city against the Jewish defenders.
Museum historians say this is not the first time stolen treasures have been returned. A Tel Aviv resident recently returned an antique chest that he had placed as an ornament in his bedroom.
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