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During excavations in the [[Church of Saint John the Baptist, Ein Karem, Jerusalem|Church of Saint John the Baptist]], a marble statue of [[Aphrodite]] (or [[Venus]]) was found, broken in two. It is believed to date from the [[Roman era]] and was probably toppled in [[Byzantine]] times. Today, the statue is at the [[Rockefeller Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Ein Kerem |url=http://www.my-holyland.com/site.php?category_id=2&site_id=5 |publisher= My Holy Land |access-date=2007-11-08 |url-status= dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714141944/http://www.my-holyland.com/site.php?category_id=2&site_id=5 |archive-date= 2011-07-14 }}</ref> Excavations in front of the same church, which has at its core the cave which Christian tradition identifies as the birthplace of [[John the Baptist]], have unearthed remains of two Byzantine chapels, one containing an inscription mentioning Christian "martyrs", but without any mention of John.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} Ceramics from the Byzantine period have also been found in Ein Karem.<ref>Dauphin, 1998, p. 906</ref>

 

 

===Early Islamic period===