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This cave at Bet Guvrin was used as a burial chamber by a family of Phoenician traders from Sidon that settled in southern Judea after Alexander the Great’s conquests 332 BC. Their leaser was apparently Apollophanes, according to an inscription on the walls. The details on the wall have been recreated