Two Iron Age Alphabetic Inscriptions from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel

This paper presents two brief alphabetic inscriptions from Area D in the lower city of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, both deriving from Iron Age IIA contexts. The first is written in an Early Alphabetic script similar to an inscription previously published from the site (Maeir et al. 2008) and is interpreted a...

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Autores principales: Eshel, Ester (Autor) ; Notarius, Tania 1967- (Autor) ; Dagan, Amit (Autor) ; Eniukhina, Maria (Autor) ; Workman, Vanessa (Autor) ; Maʾir, Aharon 1958- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: 2022
En: Bulletin of ASOR
Año: 2022, Volumen: 388, Páginas: 31-49
Otras palabras clave:B Inscription
B Iron Age
B Alfabeto
B Philistine
B Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi / Gath
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Sumario:This paper presents two brief alphabetic inscriptions from Area D in the lower city of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, both deriving from Iron Age IIA contexts. The first is written in an Early Alphabetic script similar to an inscription previously published from the site (Maeir et al. 2008) and is interpreted as being related to the storage of wine. The second, written in later, "formalized" alphabetic script, is quite fragmentary and difficult to decipher, for which several possible interpretations are suggested. These two new inscriptions join the relatively large number of alphabetic inscriptions from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, second only in number to contemporaneous Tel Rehov, and provide additional evidence to the outstanding role of the site during the early Iron Age.
ISSN:2769-3589
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Bulletin of ASOR
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1086/721690